 | 1915 - 488 pages
...is cold in the cold night-tide, Where the elfins ride." Mary CG Byron [1861FAREWELL TO THE FAIRIES FAREWELL, rewards and fairies! Good housewives now...foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late, for cleanliness,... | |
 | Kenneth Grahame - 1916 - 368 pages
...tossed their heads, And the fairy folk hid in the lavender beds. WB RANDS. Farewell to the Fairies Farewell rewards and fairies, Good housewives now...foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late, for cleanliness,... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee, Charles Talbut Onions - 1916 - 724 pages
...England : the ' lymitour ' had banished them ; in Corbet's time, fairies were things of the past : Farewell, rewards and fairies, Good housewives now...now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. In Hood's time, the Midsummer Fairies bade one more long farewell ; and in our own time, only one remains... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1917 - 296 pages
...' ?' 'Do you mean this?' said Puck! He threw his big head back and began at the second line: — ' Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; Per though they sweep their hearths no less ('Join in, Una!') Than maids were wont to do, Yet who... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 pages
...is cold in the cold night-tide, Where the elfins ride." Mary CG Byron [1861FAREWELL TO THE FAIRIES FAREWELL, rewards and fairies! Good housewives now...foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late, for cleanliness,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1915 - 276 pages
...Fairies"?' 'Do you mean this?' said Puck. He threw his big head back and began at the second line: — 'Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they; For though they sweep their hearths no less ('Join in, Una!') Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of... | |
 | Robert Thurston Hopkins - 1921 - 278 pages
...memories and shadows — which recur hauntingly again and again, like a refrain of an old song : " Farewell, rewards and fairies, Good housewives now...foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids are wont to do, Yet who of late for cleanliness... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1922 - 350 pages
...quaint looking backward upon old places and old times that is almost pathetic in these verses : — Farewell rewards and fairies, Good housewives now...foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late for cleanliness... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1923 - 804 pages
...made friends in a left-handed trance. A charming lyric by Bishop Corbet is: FAREWELL TO THE FAIRIES "Farewell, rewards and fairies!" Good housewives now...foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. And, though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late, for cleanliness,... | |
 | 1923 - 748 pages
...when the Puritans came in, it seems, the fairies fled away. And Richard Corbet bewailed their exile: "Farewell, rewards and fairies!" Good housewives now...may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as welKas they. And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late,... | |
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Farewell, rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late for cleanliness Finds sixpence in her shoe ? "... 
