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Do you believe in fairies?

Chapter 29: TO MARIE
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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.

TO MARIE

Such a dainty little miss
Is Marie,
Whom I love to pet and kiss ...
Sweet Marie!
Auburn hair in sunny wave,
Freckled face, now sad, now grave ...
Would you teach me to behave ...
Dear Marie?
You’ve culled learning from deep books
Fair Marie,
A Phi Beta ... and such looks!
Oh Marie!
That you set my heart a-flutter,
Not the wise words that you utter ...
It’s your charm that makes me stutter ...
My Marie!
But though lyrics I indite you,
Fair Marie,
Ardent love letters I write you,
Still Marie,
You prefer to let me pine, dear,
Lonely hours have been mine, dear.
Oh your art is superfine, dear,
Dear Marie!

But I never give up hope,
Of Marie,
Liberally I hand soft soap
To Marie ...
For I know when I grow older,
And my beaux affairs grow bolder ...
By her tactics, I’ll be colder
Than Marie!