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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536750" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker</strong></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 th etiny 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! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You watch your cattle the summerday,<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 makea shoe; <br>Getting rich every stitch,<br>Tick-a-tack too! '<br>Nine and ninety treasure crocks<br>This keen miser fairy hath,<br>Hid in the mountains, woods and rocks,<br>Ruin and round-tow'r, cave and rath,<br>And where 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! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I caught him at work one day, myself,<br>In the castle ditch where fox-glove 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 - shoe 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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Up on the lonely rath's green mound? 
Only the plaintive yellow bird
Sighing in sultry fields around,
Chary, chary, chary, chee-ee! -
Only the grasshopper and the bee? -
'Tip-tap, rip-rap,
Tick-a-tack-too! 
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