But I could only glare and stare, oh, would she understand?

I simply couldn't speak at all, I simply couldn't stir,

And all the rest of Oxford Street was just a shining blur.

Then suddenly she shook her wings—a bird had fluttered by—

And down into the street she looked and up into the sky,

And perching on the railing on a tiny fairy toe

She flashed away so quickly that I hardly saw her go.

I never saw her any more, although I looked all day;

Perhaps she only came to peep and never meant to stay;

But oh, my dears, just think of it, just think what luck for me