Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1855-06-01


the little bird; and it was a pleasant thing
see how lively and merry and happy the elf
things were. After a while they eathere
around the spring. and one after another drop
ped in until they were all gone, and the lttl
white bird followed them-and Annie hear
their sweet voices growing fainter until they di
ed away, down in the depths of the fountain
Annie was grieved 10 see these little peopl
and the beautiful white bird go down into tn
water, and tears gathered in her eyes whom sh
thought they were all drowned. Presently
chorus of voices like The sounds Of music-bo
came up from the fount ain. faint and far off a
hrst, but coming nearer and nearer till it seem
ed right in the spring at her feet, and she hear
the song of thousands upon thousands of sWee
little voices:
| Dear Annie. dry your tears,
Sweet Annie! Danish fears,
Down in the crystal spring,
Hear how we fairies sing,
List TO our lay:
Here meath the shady bowers
Fragrant with the breath of flowers
Sport we and play,
Come with us, Annie dear,
Come with US, do not fear,
Come with us home;
Down in the crystal spring,
Down where we Fairies eing,
Come Annie! come!
Annie stepped to the fountain, and looking
down, saw away below her what seemed 10 bI
a magnificent garden, filed with all kinds oi
beautiful flowers, and there were delightful
! paths and arbOrs and summer houses, and green
lawns, and mounds covered with pinks and vi.
olets, and hundred other sweet posies and
there were pleasant trees all covered with green
foliage, and gay blossoms waving gracefully in
gentle breeze. Annie longed 10 go down to
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water The little people, we said, had wings
like the hummng birds and they came swim
ming sp by thousands out of the spring, gath
ering around her, and some took hold Of her
fingers, and some of her feet, and some Of her
arms, and some of her curls. but gently and not
so as TO hurt her; hundreds put their little hands
under her head, and they lifted her thus from
| the ground and bore her gently down into the
fountain, the water parting so that not thread
OF her garments were wet: and down! down!
softly and gently they bore her, until they came
to the midst of the Fairy garden beneath the
spring.
And beautiful place it was. Here was ev.
cry flower that ever bIoomedi in the world; eve
ry pleasant shade tree; every kind Of delicious
fruit; and every tree that blossoms; and there
were walks reaching away and away in the dis
tance, crossing each other, and winding around
among the shrubbery with the long branches of
the shade trees iHtertwined aud arching above
them. There 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 all alive with
merry and sweet voiced birds, hopping, singing
and earrolling anon the branches. 1t was not
lighted by the sun, for it was away down in the
earth, but by great diamond that gave out
light brighter than the sun, that was reflected
back by thousands OF precious stones away up
in the Vaulied roof, which glowed and sparkled
like the stars of heaven at night.
When the little people who had borne Annie
from the earth above, sat her down in the midst
of this beautiful place, thousands of others came
hocking around her clapping 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, aud they
all seemed rejoiced that she had csme down
10 their fairy home. Presently they gathered in
to ring aud joined hands in a circle about her;
around and around they went in merry dance
as if something wonderfully delightful had hap
pened; and as they circled about her, this was
their song:
Happy are we! Fairies so gay.
Merriy sing we, and this be our lay:
Here, where the coral stems
Glisten with costly gems
Here meath the diamonds sheen,
Annie. who saved our Queen
Welcome is she,
w th wreathes from the choicest bowers,
And cha9lets of sweetest flowers
Crowned shall shs be.
Fly, Fairies, fly away;
Bear US without delay;
Rich blossoms and roses,
And sweet scented posies.
And away few thousands Of the fairy things
to every part OF the garden, like bees in pursuit
of b oney, some this way and some that, crcling
around the blossoming trees aud the Towering
plants, as If selecting the choicest things that
bloom. After little while they came cluster
ing around her again, and the blossoms and lit
tie flowers, aud wreathes and chaplets, and
nosegays, came falling into her lap, and upon
her shoul ders, and upon her head, like snow
flakes, till she was well nigh smothered by 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 to be Ike harp string, soft to be
sure, but full of sweetness and melody, and the
song of the little people came echoing back
from the trees and shrubs, and flowers, as they
sang,
Above in the tangled thern,
With plumage all soiled and torn,
There lay our Queen.
There where the powerless weep,
There where the serpents sleep,
Had not Annie heard her moan,
And to her relief had flown,
Setting her free.
And here in cur fairy home,
Where no care has ever come,
Sorrow would come.
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 plumaged bird;
,ut the Queen of the Fairies, larger than the
,ther little people, with diamond crown on her
read, and dressed in beautifu lawn and lace
liner than the SPIDERS web, and all bespangled
With precious little gems that sparkIed and FASH
ID in the light of the great diamond. came to
Ter with smile like sunbeam, and kissed her
IN the cheek, and then she knew that the beau
iful white plumaged bird, that she released
rom the tangled thorn bush, was none other
han the Queen of the Fairies.
just then while little Annie was so happy,
he heard the voice Of her mother calling her
nd she started up from the cushioned seatin
he summer house, upon which she had been
sleep, and fou nd that the little people, and the {
ongs Of the fairies, and the beautiful garden ,
own beneath the spring, and the great dia- /.
nond aud the music of the blossoms and fow- !
rs, and the Fairy Queen were ala dream.