Hoofs of Pegasus

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>THE PIPER</h2> <div class="poetry-container"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="bigfont">Y</span>OU laid your slender fingers,</span> <span class="i2">Your fingers long and brown,</span> <span class="i0">Upon the pipes, and lured me</span> <span class="i2">Far from the stolid town.</span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">You piped me to the greenwood,</span> <span class="i2">And there, when grace was said,</span> <span class="i0">We brake and ate together</span> <span class="i2">The fairy’s secret bread.</span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Oh then my ears were opened</span> <span class="i2">And magically I heard</span> <span class="i0">The small leaves talk together,</span> <span class="i2">The gossip of a bird.</span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Bewitched? There is no telling:</span> <span class="i2">But always, till I’m dead,</span> <span class="i0">I’ll hear your silver piping</span> <span class="i2">And eat your fairy bread.</span></div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />