Day Dreams

    White wings over the water,     Fluttering, fluttering over the sea,     White wings over the water,     What are you bringing to me?     A fairy prince in a golden boat,     With golden ringlets that fall and float,     A velvet cap, and a taffety cloak,     This you are bringing to me.     Fairy, fairy princekin,     Sailing, sailing hither to me,     Silk and satin and velvet,     What are you coming to see?     A little girl in a calico gown,     With hair and eyes of dusky brown,     Who sits on the wharf of the fishing-town.     Looking away to sea.     Golden, golden sunbeams,     Touch me now with your wands of gold;     Make me a beautiful princess,     Radiant to behold.     Blue and silver and ermine fine,     Diamond drops that flash and shine;     So shall I meet this prince of mine,     Fairer than may be told.     White wings over the water,     Fluttering ever farther away;     Dark clouds shrouding the sunbeams,     Sullen and cold and gray.     Back I go in my calico gown,     Back to the hut in the fishing-town.     And oh, but the night shuts darkly down     After the summer day!