The Fairies
William Allingham
1824 to 1889
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Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
______ daren’t go a-hunting
For fear of little men;
______ folk, good folk,
Trooping all together;
Green jacket, ______ cap,
And white owl’s feather!
Down along the ______ shore
Some make their home,
They live on ______ pancakes
Of yellow tide-foam;
Some in the reeds
Of the black mountain lake,
With frogs for their watch-dogs,
All night awake.
High on the hill-top
______ old King sits;
He is now so old and ______
He’s nigh lost his wits.
With a bridge ______ white mist
Columbkill he crosses,
On his stately ______
From Slieveleague to Rosses;
Or going up with ______
On cold starry nights
To sup with the ______
Of the gay Northern Lights.
They stole little ______
For seven years long;
When she came down ______
Her friends were all gone.
They took her ______ back,
Between the night and morrow,
They thought ______ she was fast asleep,
But she was dead ______ sorrow.
They have kept her ever since
Deep ______ the lake,
On a bed of flag-leaves,
Watching ______ she wake.
By the craggy hill-side,
Through the ______ bare,
They have planted thorn-trees
For pleasure here ______ there.
If any man so daring
As dig ______ up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night.
Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting
______ fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
______ all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
And white owl’s feather!