Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-07-05


were green lawns shorn smooth, and soft as
velvet beneath the football, and there were
bright fountains sparkling and playing in every
direction, and the trees were al alive with
merry and sweet-voiced birds, hopping, sing
ing, and carolling among the branches It
was not lighted by tie sun, for it was away
down In the earth, but by q great diamond
that gave out light, brighter than the sun,
that was reflected back by thousands Of pro-
clous stones away up in the vaulted roof, which
glowed end spsrkled like the stars Of heaven
al night
When the little people who had borne Annie
from the earth above, sat her down in the
midst Of This beautiful place, thOusapds Of
others came focking around her, elspping
their little hands in joyful welcome, and some
kissed her upon the mouth, and some on the
chin, and some on the cheek. and some on the
eyes, and some on the forehead, and some ON
the neck, and they all seemed SO rejoieed that
she had come down 70 their fairy hume. Pre-
sently they gathered into q ring and joining
hands in circle about her around and around
they went in q merry da?ce as II something
wonderfully delightful had hsppened; and -
they circled about her, this was tbeir song:
Happy we! Fairies 50 gay,
Merily sing we, and this be our lsy,
Here where the coral stems
GIisten with costly gems,
Here meath the diamonds sheen.
Annie who saved our Queen,
Welcome Is she.
With wreaths from the choicest bowuu.
And chaPlets OF sweetest flowers,
Crowned shall she be.
Fly, Fairies, fy away
Bear US without DELAY;
Rich blossoms and roses
And sweet scented posies
And away flew thousands of the fairy things
to every part Of the garden, like bees In pur-
sur OF honey, some this way and eome that,
circling around the blossoming trees and the
noWerlng plsts, as If selecting the choicest
things, that bloom. After little while they
came clustering around her again. and the
blossoms, and little flowers, and wreaths, and
chap!ets, and nOsegays, came falling into her
lap and unOn her shoulders, and on her head.
like snow-aakes, till she was well nigh smoth-
cred 10y the joyful kindness that the elm
things bestowed upon her. All the time the
garden was full Of music. Every leaf, and
every flower, and every blossom, seemed 10 be
like a harp-string, soft TO be sure, but full OF
sweetness and melody, and the song Of tho
little peple came echoing back from the trsce,
and snrubs, and flowers, as they sang:
Above IN the tangled thorn,
With plumage all soiled and torn.
There lay our Queen.
There wnere the providers creep,
There wnere the scrpcnts sleep,
Lost had she been
Had Annie not heard her moon.
And TO her relief had fown,
Setting her free
And here In our Fairy home,
Where no care has ever come,
Sorrow would be.
And then with merry shout, they all cried
Welcome welcome. Annie dear.
Welcome TO our revels here
sweet Annie. we bless thee
Embrace, and caress thee
Down meath the crystal spring
Here In our Fairy ring,
Here where we dance and sing
Here in our home.
Annie had not seen the white-pIums srei h,rd.
but the Queen of the Fairies, larger thsn the
other little people, with diamond crown ON
her head, and dressed in beautiful lawn and
laces finer than the spiders web, and all be-
spangled with precious little gems th at spsrkled
and flashed in the light of the great diamond,
came TO her with smile like a sunbeam, and
kissed her on the cheek, and then she knew
that the beautiful white -plumaged bird that
she released from the tangled tbornbush. was
none other than the Queen Of the Fairies.
just then when little Annie was so hsppv.
she heard the voice Of her mother calling her.
and she started up from the cushioned seat i'm
the summer house, upon which she had been
asleep, and found that the little white-plum-
aged bird, aud the little people, and the songs
ot tho fairies, and the beautiful garden down
beneath the spring, and the great diamond
and the music Of the blossoms and flowers and
the Fairy Queen, were all a dream.