by Walter De la Mare (1873 - 1956)

Longlegs
Language: English 
Longlegs -- he yelled 'Coo-ee!'
   And all across the combe
Shrill and shrill it rang - rang through
   The clear green gloom.
Fairies there were a-spinning,
   And a white tree-maid
Lifted her eyes, and listened
   In her rain-sweet glade.
Bunnie to bunnie stamped; old Wat
   Chin-deep in bracken sate;
A throstle piped, "I'm by, I'm by!"
   Clear to his timid mate.
And there was Longlegs straddling,
   And hearkening was he,
To distant Echo thrilling back
   A thin 'Coo-ee!'

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Confirmed with Peacock Pie. A Book of Rhymes by Walter de la Mare, London: Constable & Co. Ltd., [1920], page 131.


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