Classic Poem

( " Songs of Donegal. " Herbert Jenkins.)

Said the Fairies of Kilfinnan
To the Fairies of Macroom:
" Oh! send to us a shuttle
For our little fairy loom.
Our workers, one and twenty,
Are waiting in the Coom — — — "
So Kilfinnan got a shuttle
From the Fairies of Macroom.

Kilfinnan got the shuttle,
The shuttle for the loom.
" Now, send us back a hammer, "
Said the Fairies of Macroom.
" We've cobblers, one and twenty,
All idle in their room. "
And Kilfinnan sent a hammer
To the Fairies of Macroom.

The Queen of all the Fairies
Sat in her drawing-room:
Her robes came from Kilfinnan,
Her brogues came from Macroom.
Now, at the Royal Dinner
The proudest in the room
Were the Fairies from Kilfinnan
And the Fairies from Macroom.