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Cicely Mary Barker

The Canterbury Bell Fairy

 

Bells that ring from ancient towers-
Canterbury Bells-
Give their names to summer flowers-
Canterbury Bells-
Do the flower-fairies, playing,
Know what those great bells are saying?
Fairy, in your purple hat,
Little fairy, tell us that!
"Naught I know of bells in towers-
Canterbury Bells-
Mine are pink or purple flowers-
Canterbury Bells-
When I set them all a-swaying,
Something, too, my bells are saying;
Can’t you hear them--ding-dong-ding-
Calling fairy-folk to sing?"

 

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