BOY. "My mother made me promise To be in time for tea, 'Go home! go home!' the breezes say, That sigh along the lea. I dare not give myself away; For what would Mother do? I wish I might Stay out all night At fairy games with you. D! DI! DIN! DING! And hear the bells of blue. "But Father sleeps beneath the grass, And Mother is alone: And who would fill the pails, and fetch The wood when I am gone? And who, when little Sister ails, Can comfort her, but me? Her cries and tears Would reach my ears Through all the melody-- D! DI! DIN! DING! Of Blue-bells on the lea." The sun was on the Blue-bells, The lad was on the lea. "Oh, wondrous bells! Oh, fairy bells! I pray you ring to me. I only did as Mother bade, For tea I did not care, And winds at night Give more delight Than all this noonday glare." D! DI! DIN! DING! No sound of bells was there. BOY. "The snow lies o'er the Blue-bells, A storm is on the lea; Our hearth is warm, the fire burns bright, The flames dance merrily. Oh, Mother dear! I would no more That on that summer's day, Within the ring, The Fairy King Had stolen me away-- D! DI! DIN! DING! To where the Blue-bells play. "Yet when the storm is loudest, At deep midnight I dream, And up and down upon the lea To chase the wind I seem; While by my side, in feathered cap, There runs the Fairy King, And down below, Beneath the snow, We hear the Blue-bells ring-- D! DI! DIN! DING! Such happy dreams they bring!" AN ONLY CHILD'S TEA-PARTY.