“The Fairies” by William Allingham

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“The Fairies” by William Allingham

Sunday, December 31st, 2006 | A&E |

Watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Katie, got curious about this line spoken by a knife sharpener to Charlie outside the Wonka factory:

Up the airy mountain
Down the rushy glen,
We daren’t go a-hunting,
For fear of little men;

Turns out it’s from The Fairies by William Allingham. I found it at the Baldwin Project for children’s online literature, which is fantastic.

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3 Comments to “The Fairies” by William Allingham

aaren healy
October 21, 2007

im actually related to william allingham. my nan is called rosemary allingham. However, i cant quite remember how im related to him.

Les Jones
November 8, 2007

“Button, button, who’s got the button?”

Last night Melissa was showing me some old books of hers. One was Singing on Our Way, a 1949 collection of children’s songs. Flipping through it I found a song called “Who Has the Button?”, attributed to Verna Meads Surer. I stopped, because I instant…

Anonymous
January 15, 2008

doubt if I am relaed to Willm Allingham but always loved the poem The Faries ,and am hoping to organise a painting competition among local artist asking for pictures based on the poem
This would be the sixth competition I have organised