THE FAIRY MAN

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 raisins,
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.