The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 14
The stream and all in it

Will clear by-and-by.

XXXVI

FAIRY BREAD

Come up here, O dusty feet!

Come

Here is fairy bread to eat.

Here in my retiring room,

Children, you may dine

On the golden smell of broom

And the shade of pine;

And when you have eaten well,

Fairy stories hear and tell.

XXXVII

FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

Faster

Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

And charging along like troops in a battle,

All through the meadows the horses and cattle:


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