A FAIRY TALE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9123, 2 July 1891, Page 4

A FAIRY TALE.

I find my fair stories in a book That all who choose may read, Full of strange wonder to the eyes that look, • ; , And to the hearts that heed. To-day the clouds have blotted out the blue, Mists hang upon the hill ; Go here's a fairy story that is true, To keep the children still. A little thing How through the air. On wimre of misty light, , ' Loitered nnd faltered : then, none know ing where, * Sank from her buoyant flight. Either she found unwonted dew. or green And craved a brief delay, • ' ! Or suddenly some kindred land was seen ■ That beckoned her to stay. i Slia hnltcd, stayed, nor evermore began That filmy flight again ; I Jior was she missed by any eye of man, Ey sun, or wind, or rain. > The spot was on the grass beside a gate ' Upon a quiet street, * j Through which, day after day, early and late, i • ■ "Went little children's feet. . j And there, after a winter's ice and cold. After long weeks of snow. Close to the daily beaten path, behold— r Something began to grow. Tho children spied it, knew, it's pretty name, And what it promised knew ; And paused an instant as they .went and came To see how fast it grew. & dented leaf — from that called lion's tooth, A low bud, greenish gray : And then' the flower, the dandelion, for sooth, So yellow, round, and gay ! See it; the humble, shining little thing, Just what our tired eyes need ! The flying fairy of the v misty wing ? Ah, yes, that was the seed.