Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PILLOW FAIRIES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS


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First Line: Have you seen those fairy people
Last Line: I will be the last to blame ye!
Subject(s): Fairies; Night; Elves; Bedtime


Have you seen those fairy people
That, before you're half asleep, will
Steal the stuffing from your pillow,
And the pillow-case will fill so
Very fast and softly that it
Never wakes you while they're at it?
Yet, before the night is over,
You're in misery, or clover;
For the stuffing they put in it's
Made of days and hours and minutes!

If your day was kind and gentle,
And if all your business went well,
If the hours were smooth and sunny,
Swift as bees and sweet as honey,
All this pleasant stuffing will go
To the making of your pillow
Smooth and sweet, till your repose is
Soft as dew on sleeping roses.

But if all your day was horrid,
Forehead furrowed, temper torrid,
If the hours were harsh and snappy,
All disjointed and unhappy,
Then this awkward stuffing will go
To the making of your pillow
Hard and prickly and annoying,
Angular and sleep-destroying!

Ah, ye kindly pillow fairies,
Well I know your anxious care is
Not to fret us, not to tease us,
But to soothe us and to please us.
When I furnish for my pillow
Hours so ugly, days so ill, though
All my slumber hobbles lamely,
I will be the last to blame ye!





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