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The Fairy Man
Mary Gilmore
It was, it was a fairy man
Who came to town to-day;
"I'll make a cake for sixpence
If you will pay, will pay."
I paid him with a sixpence,
And with a penny too;
He made a cake of rainbows,
And baked it in the dew.
The stars he caught for raisings,
The sun for candied peel,
The moon he broke for spices
And ground it on a wheel.
He stirred the cake with sunbeams,
And mixed it faithfully
With all the happy wishings
That come to you and me.
He iced it with a moonbeam,
He patterned it with play,
And sprinkled it with star dust
From off the Milky Way.
