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Silver Pennies by Blanche Jennings Thompson

Some One Watched the Fairies The Little Elf Fairies Never a Penny Child Next Door the Dormouse North Wind's Mockery the Griffin Be Evening Song The Sleepy Song Baby Seed Song Queen Anne's Lace The Hens Strange Tree Water Noises The Rivals Faithless Little Folks Parliament Fog Plaint of the Camel Potatoes' Dance Animal Crackers Bunch of Roses Check Tiny Thing Vinegar Man Portrait Saw a Moor Song of Life Cloths of Heaven Grace for Light Wandering Aengus Lone Dog Work Souls

Some One If you should hear a tiny little knock at your door, what would you think it might be? I wonder who was knocking at this little boy's door. It seems like fairies, doesn't it?

SOME one came knocking

At my wee, small door;

Some one came knocking,

I'm sure – sure – sure;

I listened, I opened,

I looked to left and right,

But nought there was a-stirring

In the still dark night;

Only the busy beetle

Tap – tapping in the wall,

Only from the forest

The screech-owl's call,

Only the cricket whistling

while the dewdrops fall,

So I know not who came knocking,

At all, at all, at all.

Walter de la Mare

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