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THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 9. TROUBLES WITH THE STAFF, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And besides, she omitted / to notice, the staff
Last Line: And kept them by tact.
Subject(s): Fairies; Elves


AND besides, she omitted
to notice, the staff
were too tall by about
seven foot and a half.
So she had to employ
a mouse for the cook
(who ate every page
of the recipe book),
as butler she chose a
green-liveried cricket,
who, when handing a plate
was accustomed to lick it,
and the maid was a snail
who hid in her shell
whenever they wished her
to answer the bell.
In addition to these
there were thirty-nine persons,
for the cook had insisted
on bringing all her sons.
The maid brought her cousins,
the butler his brother,
till it seemed she'd go bankrupt
one way and another,
from which she was happily
saved by the fact
that she fed them by magic,
and kept them by tact.





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