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Fairy Realm

Tom Hood

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Here are five of the most loved Fairy Tales retold in verse by the English humourist and writer, Tom Hood (1835 - 1874). The tales are; The Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Cinderella and Hop o' my Thumb.
, The dogs are at its haunches. The Prince looks back. He rides alone, His suite no longer follow, And he can hear no friendly cheer In answer to his holloa! What a chase! What a race! What a terrible pace! He's outridden his friends. It's a very queer case— Where can he have got? What's the name of the place He 'll never be able his steps to retrace! He pulls up his steed, Not too early, indeed, For the poor beast is finished, it shakes like a reed. If his home lay quite near, And he knew where to steer, His horse could not carry him there—that is clear. Meanwhile each lengthening shadow shows That day is drawing to a close. In two more hours the glowing sun Will down the western heavens run, And quench its glories manifold In yon bright sea of molten gold. Before him that dense thicket vast and dim Spreads out its awful silence and seclusion, And none is near to tell its tale to him And scare intrusion. On either side his path a giant bole Rears its huge form, a rude gigantic column. That gloomy portal does not fill his soul With fancies solemn. His step is light on the luxuriant sod, From the green blades a thousand dew-drops spurning. Little he dreams that path has ne'er been trod By foot returning. Heedless he views the dark nooks in the glades, Passing to spots that shafts of sunlight brighten— Nor knows that human bones within those shades Are laid to whiten. For him there is no terror in the spot, No hint of deaths to which it interest sad owes; For him no spectres its bright sunshine blot, Or fill its shadows. For him the secret of that grove profound Is locked away—that tragic tale, and tear

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