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BY AUNT SUSIE.
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The Quern of Fairies. one summer night,
Rang out her silver bell.
Her palm <>. a lily, tall and white.
Grew in the mossy dell.
Softly the bell’s sweet tones rose and fell
Throughout all fairyland:
In quick answer to the mystic spell
Circled a shining band.
Their gossamer robes of dazzling white
Were spun in evening dew.
Their gauzy wings, in the soft moonlight.
Took on the rainbow hue.
With loving homage before the queen
They hastened low to bow;
She greeted them with gracious mien
And kissed each shining brow.
One fairy was missing from her place,
The sweetest of them all;
Shy little Violet, fair of face,
Who always graced the ball.
Without her, they could not joyous be.
Perchance she would be late.
Long they wait d, still hoping to see
Her enter the palace gate.
Then away they tlew throughout the land
To seek sweet Violet.
Kcver was site found and all the band
Are searching for her yet.
And we can see them every night
When the daylight softly dies.
Their tiny lamps glow with fairy light,
But we call them “fire-flies.”
LILY KENNEY.
New Orleans, February, 1894.
A Chapter on Cats.
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