{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/sfft/sfft48.htm","path":"neu/celt/sfft/sfft48.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/sfft/sfft48.htm","text":"Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, by George Douglas, [1901]\n\"O where is tiny Hew?\n \u00a0\u00a0And where is little Len?\n And where is bonnie Lu,\n \u00a0\u00a0And Menie of the Glen ?\n And where's the place of rest--\n \u00a0\u00a0The ever changing hame ?\n Is it the gowan's breast,\n \u00a0\u00a0Or 'neath the bells of faem?\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ay lu lan dil y'u.\n\"The fairest rose you find\n \u00a0\u00a0May have a taint within;\n The flower of womankind\n \u00a0\u00a0May not be free from sin,--\n The fox-glove cup go bring,\n \u00a0\u00a0The tail of shooting sterne, p. 151\n And round our grassy ring\n \u00a0\u00a0We'll pledge the pith o' fern.\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ay lu lan dil y'u.\n\"And when the yellow moon\n \u00a0\u00a0Is gliding down the sky,\n On wings of wishes boun',\n \u00a0\u00a0Our band to her can fly;\n Her highest horn we'll ride,\n \u00a0\u00a0And quaff her honey dew;\n Then in her shadowy side\n \u00a0\u00a0Our gambollings renew!\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ay lu lan dil y'u.\n150:2 The song is taken from a poem founded upon the above story, and entitled the Gloamyne Buchte. The author was James Telfer, schoolmaster at Saughtree, in Liddesdale born 1800, died 1862.","title":"Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales: Fairy Tales: The Fairy's Song","type":"page"}