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PAGE | | The Lassie Riding Over the Sea on the Back of the North Wind | 10 | | The Troll's Hut, the Lantern, and the Goat with the Golden Horns | 14 | | "She Said She Would Sit and Drive in a Silver Spoon" | 46 | | Just as Cinderlad Turned His Horse Around, the Princess Threw the Golden Apple | 52 | | "And When He Set Her Down He Gave Her a Kiss" | 90 | | Tattercoats Forgot All Her Troubles and Fell to Dancing | 102 | | "The Giant and the Conjurer now Knew that Their Wicked Course Was at an End" | 108 | | "He Flung Huge Masses of Rock After the Vessel" | 122 | | "She Wore Them Always . . . Loose and Flowing" | 138 | | "I Feel as if I were the Daughter of some Great King" | 158 | | "He Was a Week Trying to Tread on This Fatal Tail" | 166 | | The Mermaid Taking the King of the Golden Mines to the Steel Castle | 178 | | "Micheal, Petrified, Stood Mute, . . . Contemplating with a Frightened Air this Incongruous Dance" | 200 | | "Eliza Went, and the King and the Archbishop Followed Her" | 252 | | "March Rose in Turn, and Stirred the Fire with the Staff, when Behold! . . . It was Spring" | 266 | | "An Ugly Old Woman with the Most Monstrous Nose Ever Beheld" | 292 | | "In This Way the Fisherman Carried Him to the Castle" | 304 | | "In the Middle of the Night, when Griffin was Snoring Away Lustily, Jack Reached Up and Pulled a Feather Out of His Tail" | 328 | | "Then Dummling's Lovely Maiden Sprang Lightly and Gracefully Through the Ring" | 332 | | ""What Are You Standing There Gaping for?" Screamed the Dwarf" | 356 | | "Falada, Falada, There Thou Hangest!" | 364 | | "At Last He Reached the Tower . . . Where Brier Rose Was Asleep" | 370 | | "Just as It Had Come to the End of the Golden Thread It Reached the King's Son" | 388 | | "The Ranee Said, 'This is a Dear Little Girl'" | 434 |
Throned on a grassy knoll, I watch
The elfin host come trooping by,
And hear the whir of fairy wings,
The goblin voices, shrill and high.
Behind them glides a magic train
Of Kings and Princes, armor-clad,
And serving as their squires bold
Boots, Ashiepattle, Cinderlad.
With silken rustle, flash of gem,
Queen and Czaritsa sweep along,
While red-capped Troll and rainbow Sprite
Peep out amid the enchanted throng.
Ting-ling, ting-ling, how sweet the ring,
Like golden bells, of fairy laughter;
Rap-tap, rap-tap, how sharp the clap
Of fairy footfalls following after!
Where witch-grass grows and fern-seed lies,
A Fairy Ring is dimly seen;
And there a glitt'ring host is met
To dance upon the moonlit green.
Riquet, the Tufted, lightly turns
The Fair One with the Golden Hair;
And Prince Desire and Mignonette
Form yet another graceful pair.
Tall as a tower stands Galifron;
The Desert Fay, with snakes bedight,
First pirouettes with him and then
With wee Tom Thumb, King Arthur's Knight.
Ting-ling, ting-ling, how sweet the ring,
Like golden bells, of fairy laughter;
Rap-tap, rap-tap, how sharp the clap
Of fairy footfalls following after!
Sweet, unseen harpers harp and sing,
Faint elfin horns the air repeat;
Rapunzel shakes her shining braids,
The White Cat trips with velvet feet.
Rose-red, Snow-white, the faithful Bear,
Cross hands with gallant Percinet;
While Tattercoats, in turn, salutes
Yvon, the Fearless, and Finette.
—But hark! the cock begins to crow;
The darkness turns to day, and, look!
The fairy dancers whirl within
The crimson covers of this book!
NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH
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