I'd Love to be A Fairy's Child

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Title

I'd Love to be A Fairy's Child

Description

Children born of fairy stock
Never need for shirt or frock,
Never want for food or fire,
Always get their heart's desire:
Jingle pockets full of gold,
Marry when they're seven years old.
Every fairy child may keep
Two strong ponies and ten sheep;
All have houses, each his own,
Built of brick or granite stone;
They live on cherries, they run wild---
I'd love to be a fairy's child.

Identifier

3418.txt

Creator

Graves, Robert (1895-1985)

Date

(1995, 1997, 1999)

Date Created

1997-01-01

Temporal Coverage

1999-12-31

Type

Poem

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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