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'Down along the rocky shore
Some make their home...
Some in the reeds
Of the black mountain lake,
With frogs for their watch-dogs,
All night awake.

...They stole little Bridget
For seven years longl
When she came down again
Her friends were all gone.
They took her lightly back,
Between the night and morow,
They thought that she was fast asleep,
But she was dead with sorrow."

-The Fairies - By William Allingham - 1850