Rose Fyleman Poems

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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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
...

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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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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