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Collected poems by Vachel Lindsay

revised and illustrated edition

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THE DANGEROUS LITTLE BOY FAIRIES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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THE DANGEROUS LITTLE BOY FAIRIES

In fairyland the little boys
Would rather fight than eat their meals.
They like to chase a gauze-winged fly
And catch and beat him till he squeals.
Sometimes they come to sleeping men
Armed with the deadly red-rose thorn,
And those that feel its fearful wound
Repent the day that they were born.