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ENCHANTED TULIPS
- TULIPS white and tulips red,
- Sweeter than a violet bed!
- Say, old Mother Bailey, say
- Why your tulips look so gay,
- Why they smell so sweet, and why
- They bloom on when others die?
- “By the pixies’ magic power
- Do my tulips always flower,
- By the pixies’ magic spell
- Do they give so sweet a smell!
- Tulips, tulips, red and white,
- Fill the pixies with delight!
- “Pixy women, pixy men,
- Seek my tulips from the glen;
- Midnight come, they may be heard
- Singing sweet as any bird,
- Singing their wee babes to rest
- In the tulips they love best!”
