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