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'Tis good to be a Fairy-thing, / And flit about on gauzy wing; / To sleep in cradles made of flowers, / Or play through all the joyous hours. / For Fairies have no grief nor care, / Happy they are, and always fair, -- / I suppose.
And yet 'tis better far to be / A little human child like me, / With lessons hard and tasks to do, / And sometimes little troubles, too. / For I have Mother's tender kiss, / And nothing is so good as this, -- / Every one knows!