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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37545" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Leprechaun; or Fairy Shoemaker</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little Cowboy, what have you heard,<br> Up on the lonely rath's green mound?<br>Only the plaintive yellow bird<br> Sighing in sultry fields around,<br>Chary, chary, chary, chee-ee!--<br>Only the grasshopper and the bee?--<br> "Tip-tap, rip-rap,<br> Tick-a-tack-too!<br> Scarlet leather, sewn together,<br> This will make a shoe.<br> Left, right, pull it tight;<br> Summer days are warm;<br> Underground in winter,<br> Laughing at the storm!<br>Lay your ear close to the hill.<br>Do you not catch the tiny clamour,<br>Busy click of an elfin hammer,<br>Voice of the Lepracaun singing shrill<br> As he merrily plies his trade?<br> He's a span<br> And a quarter in height.<br>Get him in sight, hold him tight,<br> And you're a made<br> Man!<br>II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You watch your cattle the summer day,<br>Sup on potatoes, sleep in the hay;<br> How would you like to roll in your carriage.<br> Look for a duchess's daughter in marriage?<br>Seize the Shoemaker--then you may!<br> "Big boots a-hunting,<br> Sandals in the hall,<br> White for a wedding-feast,<br> Pink for a ball.<br> This way, that way,<br> So we make a shoe;<br> Getting rich every stitch,<br> Tick-tack-too!"<br>Nine-and-ninety treasure-crocks<br>This keen miser-fairy hath,<br>Hid in mountains, woods, and rocks,<br>Ruin and round-tow'r, cave and rath,<br> And where the cormorants build;<br> From times of old<br> Guarded by him;<br> Each of them fill'd<br> Full to the brim<br> With gold!<br>III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I caught him at work one day, myself,<br> In the castle-ditch, where foxglove grows,--<br>A wrinkled, wizen'd and bearded Elf,<br> Spectacles stuck on his pointed nose,<br> Silver buckles to his hose,<br> Leather apron-shot in his lap--<br> "Rip-rap, tip-tap,<br> Tick-tack-too!<br> (A grasshopper on my cap!<br> Away the moth flew!)<br> Buskins for a fairy prince,<br> Brogues for his son,--<br> Pay me well, pay me well,<br> When the job is done! "<br>The rogue was mine, beyond a doubt.<br>I stared at him; he stared at me;<br>"Servant, Sir!" "Humph!" says he,<br> And pull'd a snuff-box out.<br>He took a long pinch, look'd better pleased,<br> The queer little Lepracaun;<br>Offer'd the box with a whimsical grace,-<br>Pouf! he flung the dust in my face,<br> And, while I sneezed,<br> Was gone!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Allingham">William Allingham</a><div class=q>
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