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Do you believe in fairies?

Chapter 12: SENSATIONS OF SWINBURNING
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A collection of short fantasies and lyrical poems written with a childlike eye, presenting whimsical encounters with fairies, goblins, and other small marvels set against ordinary streets and countryside. Narrative vignettes follow children and curious adults into secret glades, enchanted stones, and musical charms, while interleaved rhymes, ballades, and reflective sketches touch on adolescence, religion, city nights, and domestic humor. The pieces blend playful imagination with mild melancholy and moral observation, inviting readers to rediscover wonder in commonplace scenes through concise storylets and musical verse.

SENSATIONS OF SWINBURNING

I fly through the air ...
Ah where, tell me where
Shall I land, when I drop?
Shall I splash? Shall I flop?
When I plunge in the sea ...
Will the waves cover me?
Pause I here on the brink ...
Will I float? Will I sink
Through the green, glassy waves ...
Through the myriad of deep...?
When I die, shall I sleep ...
In the murm’ring sea caves?
Pray, is life fair enough...?
Shall I plunge from the bluff
Take the ultimate jump?
And land there ...
... with a thump?