"Won't you look out of your window, Mrs. Gill?"
Quoth the Fairy, nidding, nodding in the garden;
"Can't you look out of your window, Mrs. Gill?"
Quoth the Fairy, laughing softly in the garden;
But the air was still, the cherry boughs were still,
And the ivy-tod neath the empty sill,
And never from her window looked out Mrs. Gill
On the Fairy shrilly mocking in the garden.
"What have they done with you, you poor Mrs. Gill?"
Quoth the Fairy brightly glancing in the garden;
"Where have they hidden you, you poor old Mrs. Gill?"
Quoth the Fairy dancing lightly in the garden;
But night's faint veil now wrapped the hill,
Stark 'neath the stars stood the dead-still Mill,
And out of her cold cottage never answered Mrs. Gill
The Fairy mimbling, mambling in the garden.
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Text Authorship:
- by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956), "The mocking fairy", appears in Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes, in 6. Witches and Fairies, no. 11, first published 1913 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by (Edward) Maurice Besly (1888 - 1945), "The mocking fairy", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bainbridge Crist (1883 - 1969), "The mocking fairy" [sung text not yet checked]
- by George Dyson (1883 - 1964), "Won't you look out of your window?", c1920 [ orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
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