BEWITCHED.
Have yon ever peeped from your sheets and crept— When you should be snug in )>ed— Down the garden slope i to the grassy nook Where the fairy ring is spread ?
I stole one night when the house was still, And the moon shone round and white: I heard the pipe of the fairy tune, The tread of their feet so light.
So sweet their form, and their eyes so shone, That I laughed with joy to see ! Then the fairies turned in their wrath and pride And laid their spell on me.
Ring and fairies they lied away, But the spell was deep and strong, ’Twas—ever to seek for the fairy ring. The pipe of the fairy song!
Oh, I wander east and I wander west, I seek for the fairy ring. And it’s—can you lead "to the hidden dell _ Where tho lamps of the fairies swing ? But—still!' ho still! for you’re sure bewitched If you motion make or sound— When the fairy pipes ring out, ring out, And the fairy dance goes round!
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3572, 23 February 1914, Page 7
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176BEWITCHED. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3572, 23 February 1914, Page 7
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