Wendy promised to go once a year and stay a few days with Peter Pan
and clean house and mend his clothes. Let us picture them in the
little house that was built for Wendy, which the fairies had put up in
the branches of a pine-tree. The birds are singing in their nests and
in the branches, and far below the clouds you can see the land and
the sea. Wendy is sewing for Peter and Peter Pan is playing his pipes
while she works. When night comes the woods are full of flashing
lights like little stars, because the fairies are flitting around the
house where Peter and Wendy live, and are singing to them as they go
to sleep.
In a few days Wendy will go back to John and Michael to tell them what
a good time she had on her visit in the little house in the woods.
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SIR LARK AND KING SUN
BY GEORGE MACDONALD
"Good morrow, my lord!" in the sky alone,
Sang the lark as the sun ascended his throne.
"Shine on me, my lord; I only am come,
Of all your servants, to welcome you home.
I have flown right up, a whole hour, I swear,
To catch the first shine of your golden hair."
"Must I thank you then," said the king, "Sir Lark,
For flying so high and hating the dark?
You ask a full cup for half a thirst:
Half was love of me, and half love to be first.
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