"THE COMET"
"Last Tveek "The Comet, 1J Hutt -. Central School's term magazine, uas . given to me, and I read it all, news, fctorios, and verse. It's woll feet out, and thc f woodcuts, all by boys, I noticed, inako attractive illustrations. But best of all is tho verso, and I've stolen one piece to quote. The writer is Edna Lewis, who has called her, poem "A I'airy Fancy' : ■ i __ "Ihcro are fairies in tho wood beyond the meadow. . I've watch*A them every day, each Mnelo flay. And if I ilt,—Oh, quietly, never stirring, I see too darlings all come out to play. "Tbero art rings, you know, of llttlo orange tosdjtools, Where too Falrlet play to circlet day «*<""■> Ob. It's simply too enchanting in the n>*»(|(>7' Among the pixies, and the elve», and dainty fayi. "I hat aeen the teeny wecnicst little Goblin. Swing;-.* all alone—alone anoYC my hcacl; \nd\im never will believe me ulien I toll you dual he swings upon a wed of allkcu thread. •'lsn't it a pretty' thing? Just ono criticism I'll make- about the magazine: Tho committee might-road tho •proofs mow carefully. Jlis-spellings •ma misprints wouldn't bo thcro. Other- • -wise it's cscceSingly good." . . •■.■:• Fairiel. '..
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 67, 16 September 1933, Page 20
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199"THE COMET" Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 67, 16 September 1933, Page 20
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