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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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