Rewards and Fairies ebook

Contents

A Charm

Introduction

COLD IRON

Cold Iron

GLORIANA

Gloriana

The Looking-Glass

Queen Bess Was Harry’s daughter!

THE WRONG THING

A Truthful Song

The Wrong Thing

King Henry VII and the Shipwrights

MARKLAKE WITCHES

The Way Through the Woods

Marklake Witches

Brookland Road

THE KNIFE AND THE NAKED CHALK

The Run of the Downs

The Knife and the Naked Chalk

Song of the Men’s Side

BROTHER SQUARE-TOES

Philadelphia

Brother Square-Toes

IF—

‘A PRIEST IN SPITE OF HIMSELF’

A St Helena Lullaby

‘A Priest in Spite of Himself’

‘Poor Honest Men’

THE CONVERSION OF ST WILFRID

Eddi’s Service

The Conversion of St Wilfrid

Song of the Red War-Boat

A DOCTOR OF MEDICINE

An Astrologer’s Song

A Doctor of Medicine

‘Our Fathers of Old’

SIMPLE SIMON

The Thousandth Man

Simple Simon

Frankie’s Trade

THE TREE OF JUSTICE

The Ballad of Minepit Shaw

The Tree of Justice

A Carol

A Charm

Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for all who lie beneath– Not the great nor well-bespoke, But the mere uncounted folk Of whose life and death is none Report or lamentation. Lay that earth upon thy heart, And thy sickness shall depart! It shall sweeten and make whole Fevered breath and festered soul; It shall mightily restrain Over-busy hand and brain; it shall ease thy mortal strife “Gainst the immortal woe of life, Till thyself restored shall prove By what grace the Heavens do move. Take of English flowers these– Spring’s full-faced primroses, Summer’s wild wide-hearted rose, Autumn’s wall-flower of the close, And, thy darkness to illume, Winter’s bee-thronged ivy-bloom. Seek and serve them where they bide From Candlemas to Christmas-tide, For these simples used aright Shall restore a failing sight. These shall cleanse and purify Webbed and inward-turning eye; These shall show thee treasure hid, Thy familiar fields amid, At thy threshold, on thy hearth, Or about thy daily path; And reveal (which is thy need) Every man a King indeed!

Introduction

Once upon a time, Dan and Una, brother and sister, living in the English country, had the good fortune to meet with Puck, alias Robin Goodfellow, alias Nick o’ Lincoln, alias Lob-lie-by-the-Fire, the last survivor in England of those whom mortals call Fairies. Their proper name, of course, is “The People of the Hills’. This Puck, by means of the magic of Oak, Ash, and Thorn, gave the children power

To see what they should see and hear what they should hear, Though it should have happened three thousand year.

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