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    Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems
    Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems
    Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems
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    Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems

    By Dorothy Pulis Lathrop and Walter De la Mare

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems

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      Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems - Dorothy Pulis Lathrop

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Down-Adown-Derry, by Walter De La Mare

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      Title: Down-Adown-Derry

      A Book of Fairy Poems

      Author: Walter De La Mare

      Illustrator: Dorothy P. Lathrop

      Release Date: April 22, 2010 [EBook #32091]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DOWN-ADOWN-DERRY ***

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      Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      DOWN-ADOWN-DERRY

      DOWN-ADOWN-DERRY

      A Book of Fairy Poems by

      WALTER DE LA MARE

      with Illustrations by

      DOROTHY P. LATHROP

      NEW YORK

      HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

      COPYRIGHT, 1922,

      BY

      HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

      PRINTED IN U. S. A.

      CONTENTS

      FAIRIES

      THE FAIRIES DANCING

      I heard along the early hills,

      Ere yet the lark was risen up,

      Ere yet the dawn with firelight fills

      The night-dew of the bramble-cup,—

      I heard the fairies in a ring

      Sing as they tripped a lilting round

      Soft as the moon on wavering wing.

      The starlight shook as if with sound,

      As if with echoing, and the stars

      Prankt their bright eyes with trembling gleams

      While red with war the gusty Mars

      Rained upon earth his ruddy beams.

      He shone alone, low down the West,

      While I, behind a hawthorn-bush,

      Watched on the fairies flaxen-tressed

      The fires of the morning flush.

      Till, as a mist, their beauty died,

      Their singing shrill and fainter grew;

      And daylight tremulous and wide

      Flooded the moorland through and through;

      Till Urdon's copper weathercock

      Was reared in golden flame afar,

      And dim from moonlit dreams awoke

      The towers and groves of Arroar.

      To contents

      DREAM-SONG

      Sunlight, moonlight,

      Twilight, starlight—

      Gloaming at the close of day,

      And an owl calling,

      Cool dews falling

      In a wood of oak and may.

      Lantern-light, taper-light,

      Torchlight, no-light:

      Darkness at the shut of day,

      And lions roaring,

      Their wrath pouring

      In wild waste places far away.

      Elf-light, bat-light,

      Touchwood-light and toad-light,

      And the sea a shimmering gloom of grey,

      And a small face smiling

      In a dream's beguiling

      In a world of wonders far away.

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      A-TISHOO

      "Sneeze, Pretty, sneeze, Dainty,

      Else the Elves will have you sure,

      Sneeze, Light-of-Seven-Bright-Candles,

      See they're tippeting at the door;

      Their wee feet in measure falling,

      All their little voices calling,

      Calling, calling, calling, calling—

      Sneeze, or never come no more!"

      A-tishoo!

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      THE DOUBLE

      I curtseyed to the dovecote.

      I curtseyed to the well.

      I twirled me round and round about,

      The morning sweets to smell.

      When out I came from spinning so,

      Lo, betwixt green and blue

      Was the ghost of me—a Fairy Child—

      A-dancing—dancing, too.

      Nought was of her wearing

      That is the earth's array.

      Her thistledown feet beat airy fleet

      Yet set no blade astray.

      The gossamer shining dews of June

      Showed grey against the green;

      Yet never so much as a bird-claw print

      Of footfall to be seen.

      Fading in the mounting sun

      That image soon did pine.

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