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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VERY NEARLY!, by QUEENIE SCOTT-HOPPER
First Line: I never quite saw fairy-folk
Last Line: I very, very nearly did!
Subject(s): Fairies; Mermaids & Mermen; Elves
First Line: I never quite saw fairy-folk
Last Line: I very, very nearly did!
Subject(s): Fairies; Mermaids & Mermen; Elves
I never quite saw fairy-folk
A-dancing in the glade,
Where, just beyond the hollow oak,
Their broad green rings are laid;
But, while behind that oak I hid,
One day I very nearly did!
I never quite saw mermaids rise
Above the twilight sea,
When sands, left wet, 'neath sunset skies,
Are blushing rosily:
But -- all alone, those rocks amid --
One day I very nearly did!
I never quite saw Goblin Grim,
Who haunts our lumber room
And pops his head above the rim
Of that oak chest's deep gloom:
But once -- when mother raised the lid --
I very, very nearly did!
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