Do you believe in fairies?

Chapter 4: THE MUSIC CHARM (A Tiny Tot Rhyme)

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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.

THE MUSIC CHARM
(A Tiny Tot Rhyme)

When the great man came to play

He didn’t chase me far away,

But let me stand beside him so

That I could watch his fingers go.

I never, never saw him make

The very tiniest mistake....

And, say, I saw that player look

At his ten fingers, and the book

At once! So I knew there must be

Some trick that he had hid from me!

And maybe, when he’d gone away

The spell that brought the tunes would stay!

So when I felt that nobody

Was bothering to notice me,

I looked about that piano

Inside and outside, high and low,

To find that music. Timidly

I pressed each finger on a key;

Ma said it didn’t sound the same ...

It sounded queer and sounded lame,

But I don’t care, because some day

I’ll make him charm it so’s to stay!

And then maybe I’ll sit and look

At my ten fingers and the book!