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THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 1. PROEM by HUMBERT WOLFE

First Line: IN A LITTLE WHITE HOUSE, / WITH A LITTLE WHITE GABLE
Last Line: THERE LIVED A FAIRY.

IN a little white house,
with a little white gable,
the sort that a mouse
might choose for a stable,
in a little green garden,
with seven green trees
(you must say "beg pardon!"
Miss! when you sneeze),
with a head as neat
as a gold canary,
at the end of the street,
there lived a fairy.



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