THE FAIRIES GIVE THANKS
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To all kind folk who make delightful gardens
Where we may live,
Enjoying days and nights of busy leisure
Amid devices fashioned for our pleasure,
Our thanks we give.
For dancing-lawns and gravelled jousting-places,
For guardian trees,
For ferny thickets strewn with moss-grown mountains
And lily-pools and waterfalls and fountains—
For all of these.
61Charged are we also by our little comrades
The gentle birds,
That we their messages of thanks should bring you,
Since they from grateful hearts can only sing you
Songs without words.
62The author’s best thanks are due to the Editor and
Proprietors of Punch, through whose courtesy she
is able to include in this collection a number of
verses which have already appeared in that paper.
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Transcriber’s Notes
A stanza break was inserted at the start of page 25 before "But ere the morning has well begun"
Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
Typographical errors were silently corrected.
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.