Rose Fyleman Poems

IF you meet a fairy
Don't run away ;
She won't want to hurt you,
She'll only want to play.
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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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I WISH I liked rice pudding,
I wish I were a twin,
I wish some day a real live fairy
Would just come walking in.
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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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MY brother has a little flute

Of gold and ivory,

He found it on a summer night
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THE witch, the witch that lives in the wood
Is not very pretty and not very good ;
Her face is brown and her eyes are black,
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I DON'T like beetles, tho' I'm sure they're very good,
I don't like porridge, tho' my Nanna says I should;
I don't like the cistern in the attic where I play,
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HAVE you watched the fairies when the rain is done
Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the
sun?
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PEACOCKS sweep the fairies' rooms;

They use their folded tails for brooms;

But fairy dust is brighter far
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