A Fairy Went Market Once

                              [Poem]

                      1. A Fairy Went to Market Once

A fairy went to market once

She bought a little fish

She put it in a crysral bowl 

Upon a golden dish.

An hour she sat in wonderment 

And watched its silver gleam,

And then she gently took it up 

And slipped it in a stream.

A fairy went to market once

She bought a coloured bird.

It sang the sweetest, shrillest song

That ever she had heard.

She sat beside its painted cage

And listened half the day.

And then she opened wide the door

And let it fly away.

A fairy went to market once 

She bought a gentle mouse 

To take her tiny messeages

To keep her tiny house.

All day she kept its busy feet

Pit-patting to and fro 

And then she kissed its silken ears,

Thanked it and let it go.

                                                   -Rose Flyman 

*To be Memorised