[F] From “The Pot of Gold and Other Stories,” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company; used by special arrangement.
THE FAIRY THORN
An Ulster Ballad
BY SAMUEL FERGUSON
“Get up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning wheel,
For your father’s on the hill, and your mother is asleep:
Come up above the crags, and we’ll dance a Highland reel
Around the fairy thorn on the steep.”