by Rose Amy Fyleman (1877 - 1957)

Invitation
Language: English 
If you will come and stay with us
You shall not want for ease;
We'll swing you on a cobweb
Between the forest trees,
And twenty little singing birds
Upon a flow'ring thorn
Shall hush you ev'ry evening
And wake you every morn.

If you will come and stay with us
You need not miss your school;
A learned toad shall teach you,
High perched upon his stool;
And he will teach you many things
That none but fairies know,-
The way the wind goes wand'ring,
And how the daises grow.

If you will come and stay with us
You shall not lack, my dear,
The finest fairy raiment,
The best of fairy cheer.
We'll send a million glow-worms out,
And slender chains of light
Will make a shining pathway-
Then why not come to-night?

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