The Wild Knight and other Poems: Modern Elfland

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I Cut a staff in a churchyard copse, / I clad myself in ragged things, / I set a feather in my cap / That fell out of an angel's wings.

I filled my wallet with white stones, / I took three foxgloves in my hand, / I slung my shoes across my back, / And so I went to fairyland.

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