Invitation

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?