Tuesday, April 29, 2008

A secret cottage...

From the low white walls and the church's steeple,
From our little fields under grass or grain,
I'm gone away to the fairy people
I shall not come to the town again.

You may see a girl with my face and tresses,
You may see one come to my mother's door
Who may speak my words and may wear my dresses.
She will not be I, for I come no more.

I am gone, gone far, with the fairies roaming,
You may ask of me where the herons are
In the open marsh when the snipe are homing,
Or when no moon lights nor a single star.
On stormy nights when the streams are foaming
And a hint may come of my haunts afar,
With the reeds my floor and my roof the gloaming,
But I come no more to Ballynar...

-an excerpt from 'The Fairy Child' by Lord Dunsany

Wouldn't it be delightful to be walking through the woods and come upon this cute cottage? You would imagine that you were stepping into some sort of fairytale!

-found via http://www.tinyk.com/blog/

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