Rose Fyleman Poems

I STOOD against the window

And looked between the bars,
And there were strings of fairies
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A FAIRY went a-marketing

She bought a little fish;
She put it in a crystal bowl
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I think mice

Are rather nice.

There tails are long,
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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 always comes on market days,

And holds balloons a lovely bunch

And in the market square he stays,
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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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I STOOD against the window

And looked between the bars,
And there were strings of fairies
...

The best game the fairies play,
The best game of all,
Is sliding down steeples—
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THERE are fairies at the bottom of our garden!
It's not so very, very far away;
You pass the gardner's shed and you just keep straight ahead -
I do so hope they've really come to stay.
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