But O the sweet fairies! I never could tellOf the rose-hues we saw in that wonderful dell—The daffodil-yellow, the purple and green,But the sweetest of all was the lily-white Queen.
They sang of the land of the Sugary Dews,Where children may eat a whole pie, if they choose;A wonderful land; which some day we shall see,If the Shining Way leads us—Jim, Alice and me.
O we shouted with glee! and then to our surpriseThe stars drifted back again into the skies,The fairies all vanished,I covered my head,—And when I looked up, we were all three in bed.
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