The National tribune., 1881-11-12
KITTY AND THE FAIRY.
BY J. 8. SLATER.

KITTY AND THE FAIRY.
BY J. s SLATER
Kitty Clover gazing over all sisters heads, one day.
Saw a fairy bright and airy gaily dancing his way
Quickly calling him falling low upon her knees she
prayed
Gentle fairy bright and airy, though I'm but lowS
maid,
Vet measure time nv Measure while the hours with
Chase the cleaning moments teeming DER with lifes
frivOlity
Dance, prythee then, for me.
In the top of yender tree,
Pleasures latest roundelay
Ere thou goest thy way"
The fairy broke a horn from the crescent moon.
And danced on the edge of Spanish doubloon
That hung in the top of a sycamore tree
For Jolly good fellow was he, was he
A jolly good fellow was he
Gentle fairy bright and airy then said Kitty tell
me true,
Will a feather bear together its down both and
you?
Can YOU ferry such a wherry through the boundless
realms of space
And the cleaning brightly beaming rays of sunshine
homeward trace
Can truly such unruly things feathers in the air
Govern surely and securely direct them anywhere?
Then prythee sail with me,
Ger the land and DER the sea-
So reach yon shining sun
Ere his daily course is rum
Then the fairy played a tune golden strings,
Which he wove of dust from butterfiy's wings,
' And sailed feather with Kitty i'll glee,-
For a jolly good fellow was he, was he
Jolly good fellow was he.
GaiIy dancing on the CHANGING sunbeams up feather
sailed,
Higher higher drawing higher to the goal and Kitty
paled
AS the shining silver lining of cloud revealed
Twinkling, cleaning. sparkling, beaming, broad
bright crimson bar
Whose extending colors blending with the dome
on high,
Dimmed the glowing Day-God, throwing gloomy shad-
on the sky.
Come, prythee, let go
Back to earth where flowers grow ~
Kitty cried. The fairy laughed
Never turning back his craft;
But he flung Kitty up on the crimson bar,
And made big fiddle of the twinkling star,
And played till he charmed the fishes from the
Oh, jolly good fellow was he, was he
jolly good fellow was he.
Half cloud covered Kitty lowered on the crnson-ti tinted
Till the twinkng sprnkling her their
golden sand.
Then reclining the lining of her cloudy COUCH she
cried
To the fairy bright and airy sailing on the ether tide
Fairy, whittier art thou? Hither come and bear me
safe below,
Where sweet flowers kissed by showers toy with winds
that gently blow
Come prythee, bear me home,
Neyermore from thence to roam.
Come, the sun has said goodnight
And I'm trembling with alright.
The fairy made them wings out of loves young dreams
Then down they sailed in the wake of Venus beams
And landed safe in cottage by the
o, jolly good fellow was he, was he
A Jolly good fellow he
Now the fairy bright and airy lives the rolling be-
side,
And Kitty. full of pity for poor mortals is his
bride.
Where the clover struggles rocky cliffs catch the
breeze
There is Kitty, full of pity, often found beneath the
trees. ,Er r.
There she's keeping watch till peeping stars like eyes
shine thro' the night.
And the beaming streaming DER the earth
a silvry light.
Then she hastes TO Kamlas dell;
And each mortal knows full well
That to meet her by the way
Fortune brings without delay.
Then Ko fashions for his fair young bride
A girdle of sand from the oceans tide,
And weaves her a robe from foamings of the
For jolly good fellow is he, is he
A jolly good fellow is he.