[Editor: This poem for children, by Eva Oakley, was published in Fairy Poems (1945).]
Fairy poems
Princess Pretty Pet
“Greetings, Princess Pretty Pet!”
Said the Fairy King:
“Greetings, Sire! I’ve just danced round,
In a Fairy-ring;
But, alas, one shoe I lost,
And my dress I tore.”
“Never mind!” the King replied,
“I shall buy you more.”
To the Fairy shops they went,
In a golden coach,
And the King bought shoes and frock,
And a lovely brooch.
“Now!” he said, “Sweet Pretty Pet,
You look bright and gay,
And our wedding bells will ring,
One week from to-day.”
Source:
Eva Oakley, Fairy Poems, Melbourne: Austral Printing & Publishing Company, [1945], p. 1
Editor’s notes:
gay = happy, joyous, carefree; well-decorated, bright, attractive (in modern times it may especially refer to a homosexual, especially a male homosexual; can also refer to something which is no good, pathetic, useless)
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