Pig Brother and Other Fables and Stories

<h2><SPAN name="DAY_DREAMS" id="DAY_DREAMS">DAY DREAMS</SPAN></h2> <div class="drop"> <p> <span class="upper">White</span> wings over the water,<br/> Fluttering, fluttering over the sea,<br/> White wings over the water,<br/> What are you bringing to me?<br/> A fairy prince in a golden boat,<br/> With golden ringlets that fall and float,<br/> A velvet cap, and a taffety cloak,<br/> This you are bringing to me.<br/></p> <p>Fairy, fairy princekin,<br/> Sailing, sailing hither to me,<br/> Silk and satin and velvet,<br/> What are you coming to see?<br/> A little girl in a calico gown,<br/> With hair and eyes of dusky brown,<br/> Who sits on the wharf of the fishing-town.<br/> Looking away to sea.<br/><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[142]</SPAN></span></p> <p>Golden, golden sunbeams,<br/> Touch me now with your wands of gold;<br/> Make me a beautiful princess,<br/> Radiant to behold.<br/> Blue and silver and ermine fine,<br/> Diamond drops that flash and shine;<br/> So shall I meet this prince of mine,<br/> Fairer than may be told.<br/></p> <p>White wings over the water,<br/> Fluttering ever farther away;<br/> Dark clouds shrouding the sunbeams,<br/> Sullen and cold and gray.<br/> Back I go in my calico gown,<br/> Back to the hut in the fishing-town.<br/> And oh, but the night shuts darkly down<br/> After the summer day!<br/></p> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />