| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Oh! Where Do Fairies Hide Their Heads? |
| | | Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839) |
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| OH! where do fairies hide their heads | |
| When snow lies on the hills, | |
| When frost has spoil’d their mossy beds, | |
| And crystalliz’d their rills? | |
| Beneath the moon they cannot trip | 5 |
| In circles o’er the plain; | |
| And draughts of dew they cannot sip | |
| Till green leaves come again. | |
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| Perhaps, in small, blue diving-bells, | |
| They plunge beneath the waves, | 10 |
| Inhabiting the wreathed shells | |
| That lie in coral caves; | |
| Perhaps, in red Vesuvius, | |
| Carousals they maintain; | |
| And cheer their little spirits thus, | 15 |
| Till green leaves come again. | |
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| When they return there will be mirth, | |
| And music in the air, | |
| And fairy wings upon the earth, | |
| And mischief everywhere. | 20 |
| The maids, to keep the elves aloof, | |
| Will bar the doors in vain; | |
| No key-hole will be fairy-proof, | |
| When green leaves come again. | |
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