Rose Fyleman Poems

A FAIRY went a-marketing

She bought a little fish;
She put it in a crystal bowl
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I STOOD against the window

And looked between the bars,
And there were strings of fairies
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I think mice

Are rather nice.

There tails are long,
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WOULDN'T it be lovely if the rain came down
Till the water was quite high over all the town?
If the cabs and buses all were set afloat,
And we had to go to school in a little boat?
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I STOOD beneath the apple-tree,
The apples were so good to see ;
Very high above my head
I saw them shining round and red.
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UPON her little velvet hat

A silken tassel hung,
And to the very end of that
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MY cat Timothy who has such lovely eyes
Is really not a cat at all ; it's only a disguise.
A witch cast a spell on him a long time since
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HE used to be a fairy once,

A little singing fairy ;
He would not work, he would not play,
He only sat and sang all day
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YESTERDAY in Oxford Street, oh, what d'you think,

my dears?
I had the most exciting time I've had for years and
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THE grouse that lives on the moorland wide

Is filled with a most ridiculous pride ;

He thinks that it all belongs to him
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