[Editor: This poem for children, by Eva Oakley, was published in Fairy Poems (1945).]
Witch Goodandkind
Some little birds fluttered,
And started to sing;
Then the Fairies came out,
And danced in a ring.
The Gum Nut Babes peeped out,
From branches of trees.
When, all of a sudden,
They heard someone sneeze.
A voice then called to them,
“Oh! Please do not mind;
I’ve come out to watch you;
I’m Witch Goodandkind,
And I wish to see that
No harm comes your way,
For you know I just love
To watch you at play.”
They saw she was lovely.
As lovely could be;
Then she joined the dancing,
And filled them with glee.
Then, when they had finished,
They all said, “Hooray!”
And laughingly shouted,
“Let’s call it a day!”
Source:
Eva Oakley, Fairy Poems, Melbourne: Austral Printing & Publishing Company, [1945], p. 4
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