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    The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems
    The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems
    The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems
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    The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems

    By Dora Sigerson Shorter

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems - Dora Sigerson Shorter

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems, by Dora

      Sigerson

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      Title: The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems

      Author: Dora Sigerson

      Release Date: October 5, 2009 [eBook #30184]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FAIRY CHANGELING AND OTHER

      POEMS***

      Transcribed from the 1898 John Lane edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      THE FAIRY

      CHANGELING

      AND OTHER

      POEMS

      BY DORA SIGERSON

      (MRS CLEMENT SHORTER)

      john lane

      the bodley head

      london & new york

      mdcccxcviii

      NOTE

      Only one of the pieces in the following collection appeared in the writer’s earlier volume ("Verses" by Dora Sigerson; Elliot Stock, 1893).  The remainder have found refuge in "Longman’s Magazine, The Pall Mall Magazine, The National Observer" (of Mr. Henley), "Cassell’s Magazine," and numerous American publications—"The Century Magazine, The Bookman, The Boston Pilot, The Chap-Book," and others.  The Author wishes to thank the Editors of these magazines and journals for the kindness implied.

      CONTENTS

      THE FAIRY CHANGELING

      Dermod O’Byrne of Omah town

      In his garden strode up and down;

      He pulled his beard, and he beat his breast;

      And this is his trouble and woe confessed:

      "The good-folk came in the night, and they

      Have stolen my bonny wean away;

      Have put in his place a changeling,

      A weashy, weakly, wizen thing!

      "From the speckled hen nine eggs I stole,

      And lighting a fire of a glowing coal,

      I fried the shells, and I spilt the yolk;

      But never a word the stranger spoke:

      "A bar of metal I heated red

      To frighten the fairy from its bed,

      To put in the place of this fretting wean

      My own bright beautiful boy again.

      "But my wife had hidden it in her arms,

      And cried ‘For shame!’ on my fairy charms;

      She sobs, with the strange child on her breast:

      ‘I love the weak, wee babe the best!’"

      To Dermod O’Byrne’s, the tale to hear,

      The neighbours came from far and near:

      Outside his gate, in the long boreen,

      They crossed themselves, and said between

      Their muttered prayers, "He has no luck!

      For sure the woman is fairy-struck,

      To leave her child a fairy guest,

      And love the weak, wee wean the best!"

      A BALLAD OF MARJORIE

      "What ails you that you look so pale,

      O fisher of the sea?"

      "’Tis for a mournful tale I own,

      Fair maiden Marjorie."

      "What is the dreary tale to tell,

      O toiler of the sea?"

      "I cast my net into the waves,

      Sweet maiden Marjorie.

      "I cast my net into the tide,

      Before I made for home;

      Too heavy for my hands to raise,

      I drew it through the foam."

      "What saw you that you look so pale,

      Sad searcher of the sea?"

      "A dead man’s body from the deep

      My haul had brought to me!"

      And was he young, and was he fair?

      "Oh,

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