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# 2024-04-01 - The Lame Boy And The Fairy by Vachel Lindsay | |
Boy With Wings | |
## Notes | |
A Poem Game. Intended for chanting, dance, and pantomime. | |
To be chanted with a suggestion of Chopin's Berceuse. | |
Listen to Chopin's Berceuse | |
## The Lame Boy And The Fairy | |
A lame boy | |
Met a fairy | |
In a meadow | |
Where the bells grow. | |
And the fairy | |
Kissed him gaily. | |
And the fairy | |
Gave him friendship, | |
Gave him healing, | |
Gave him wings. | |
"All the fashions | |
I will give you. | |
You will fly, dear, | |
All the long year. | |
"Wings of springtime, | |
Wings of summer, | |
Wings of autumn, | |
Wings of winter! | |
"Here is | |
A dress for springtime." | |
And she gave him | |
A dress of grasses, | |
Orchard blossoms, | |
Wildflowers found in | |
Mountain passes, | |
Shoes of song and | |
Wings of rhyme. | |
"Here is | |
A dress for summer." | |
And she gave him | |
A hat of sunflowers, | |
A suit of poppies, | |
Clover, daisies, | |
All from wheat-sheaves | |
In harvest time; | |
Shoes of song and | |
Wings of rhyme. | |
"Here is | |
A dress for autumn." | |
And she gave him | |
A suit of red haw, | |
Hickory, apple, | |
Elder, paw paw, | |
Maple, hazel, | |
Elm and grape leaves. | |
And blue | |
And white | |
Cloaks of smoke, | |
And veils of sunlight, | |
From the Indian summer prime! | |
Shoes of song and | |
Wings of rhyme. | |
"Here is | |
A dress for winter." | |
And she gave him | |
A polar bear suit, | |
And he heard the | |
Christmas horns toot, | |
And she gave him | |
Green festoons and | |
Red balloons and | |
All the sweet cakes | |
And the snow flakes | |
Of Christmas time, | |
Shoes of song and | |
Wings of rhyme. | |
And the fairy | |
Kept him laughing, | |
Led him dancing, | |
Kept him climbing | |
On the hill tops | |
Toward the moon. | |
"We shall see silver ships. | |
We shall see singing ships, | |
Valleys of spray today, | |
Mountains of foam. | |
We have been long away, | |
Far from our wonderland. | |
Here come the ships of love | |
Taking us home. | |
"Who are our captains bold? | |
They are the saints of old. | |
One is Saint Christopher. | |
He takes your hand. | |
He leads the cloudy fleet. | |
He gives us bread and meat. | |
His is our ship till | |
We reach our dear land. | |
"Where is our house to be? | |
Far in the ether sea. | |
There where the North Star | |
Is moored in the deep. | |
Sleepy old comets nod | |
There on the silver sod. | |
Sleepy young fairy flowers | |
Laugh in their sleep. | |
"A hundred years | |
And | |
A day, | |
There we will fly | |
And play | |
I spy and cross tag. | |
And meet on the high way, | |
And call to the game | |
Little Red Riding Hood, | |
Goldilocks, Santa Claus, | |
Every beloved | |
And heart-shaking name." | |
And the lame child | |
And the fairy | |
Journeyed far, far | |
To the North Star. | |
author: Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 | |
detail: gopher://gopherpedia.com/0/Vachel_Lindsay | |
LOC: PS3523.I58 G5 | |
title: The Golden Whales of California | |
source: gopher://gopher.pglaf.org/1/6/9/9/6/69969/ | |
tags: audio,poem | |
# Tags | |
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