Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GIFT RING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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First Line: There's a leprecaun green
Last Line: Would be no joy at all!
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving


There's a leprecaun green
Making shoes for a fairy
Down there by the hawthorn
(So quiet and all!)
But if I can catch him—
It's difficult, very,—
Sure he'll give me a gift-ring,
With no words at all!

And if that gift-ring
Should have three wishes in it
I'd have the whole world
At my elbow and all—
But if one gift were there
And my choosing must win it
Why, the way I'd be wishing
I don't know at all!

'Twould be fine to be rich—
But a maid must have beauty,
And health is a good wish
That's lucky for all—
To be asking for goodness
Is surely a duty—
Och! there's four things I've thought
With no thinking at all!

So if the gift-ring
Had but one gift for choosing
What with health, wealth and beauty
And goodness and all—
I'd be feeling so sad
For the gifts I'd be losing
That the gift I would get
Would be no joy at all!





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