4/4 Where the finny minnows quiver,
Shaping on a blue wave’s ledge
Bubble foam to sail the river.
And the sunny hands to me
Beckon ever, beckon ever.
Oh! I would be wild and free
And with the shadow people be.
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Julie Shiel
3/4 Old lame Bridget says to me,
“It is just your fancy, child.”
She cannot believe I see
Laughing faces in the wild,
Hands that twinkle in the sedge
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/3 Those who think they've joined the dance for an hour find that many years have passed. Others are never heard from again.
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2/4 Just beyond the parson’s wall,
Where the clover globes are sweet
And the mushroom’s parasol
Opens in the moonlit rain.
Every night I hear them call
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1/4 The Shadow People
Old lame Bridget doesn’t hear
Fairy music in the grass
When the gloaming's on the mere
And the shadow people pass:
Never hears their slow grey feet
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2/3 The mushrooms are stools for the fairies to rest between dances. Humans who join the dance lose time or memory.
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Julie Shiel
A Great Spangled Fritillary and an Eastern Tailed Blue
#insects #gardening #nativeplants #butterflies #garden
1/3 If you come across a ring of mushrooms, you've found a fairy ring. This is where the fairies come to dance at night.
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Fees Danse, or Dancing Fairies, by Georges Picard Please look in my shop for more Victorian Fairy Art
The Intruder - John Anster Fitzgerald
John Anster Fitzgerald was known as "Fairy Fitzgerald" for his main subject matter. He was a leading Victorian fairy painter and his work is often dark and surre...
