THE GOBLIN'S GOOSE FAIR
The goblins were holding their autumn Goose Fair, And all the wood folk and their wives were there. Puck piped for the dancers, and big speckled spiders Of swings and tight-ropos were most skilful providers, While merry-go-rounds ‘whirled about in mad courses, With pixies for riders and dead loaves for horses. The old fairy wives, wrapped in ivyleaf shawls. Watched o’er the wares on their red toadstool stalls. They had buttercup tea-sets, snowberries for thrushes, Brown jackets for bees, and baskets of rushes; Bags of fir cones for the gnomes’ winter fuel, Poppy seed meal for the dormouse s gruel; Puff-balls for elf-babes, and waistcoats so rosy To keep Christmas robins both dapper and cosy. Oh. woodfolk and good folk with pennies for spending Found Goblin Goose-fair heaped with treasure unending!
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Evening Star, Issue 20346, 30 November 1929, Page 9
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135THE GOBLIN'S GOOSE FAIR Evening Star, Issue 20346, 30 November 1929, Page 9
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