Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG FOR ARIEL, by STEPHEN MOONEY


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SONG FOR ARIEL, by                    
First Line: Pixie, hide your feet in fern
Last Line: Till the enchanted children vanish.


Pixie, hide your feet in fern
Till a little lad return.
Leave the bells upon your toes,
Till the little fellow goes.

In the water softly dive
Till a little girl arrive.
Let her see the Larger Dipper
Buckled lightly to your slipper.

Soon the lad will be too tall,
And he will not come at all.
He shall have a gun one winter
And a horn, and be a hunter.

And the girl with no concern
For the water and the fern,
She shall have a lady's chamber.
She will not at all remember.

Shake your bells, and sing you softly.
Dance about their faces deftly.
Never let your singing finish
Till the enchanted children vanish.





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