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Title: Down-Adown-Derry
A Book of Fairy Poems

Author: Walter De La Mare

Illustrator: Dorothy P. Lathrop

Release Date: April 22, 2010 [EBook #32091]

Language: English

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DOWN-ADOWN-DERRY

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DOWN-ADOWN-DERRY
A Book of Fairy Poems by

WALTER DE LA MARE

with Illustrations by

DOROTHY P. LATHROP

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

CONTENTS

PAGE

FAIRIES

The Fairies Dancing 3
Dream-Song 4
A-Tishoo 7
The Double 8
The Unfinished Dream 11
The Horn 14
The Three Beggars 17
The Stranger 20
The Ruin 23
The Fairy in Winter 24
Sleepyhead 27
Sam's Three Wishes: or Life's Little Whirligig 29
Peak and Puke 39
The Changeling 41
Lob Lie by the Fire 45
Bluebells 48
The Honey Robbers 51
Berries 55
Happy, Happy It Is to Be 58
The Midden's So