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Watch that old fire as it flickers and dies,  That once blessed the household and lit up our lives.  It shone for the friends and the clinking of glasses.  I'll tend to the flame; you can worship the ashes.  ---  Capture the wild things and bring them in line  And own what was never your right to confine.  The lives and the loves and the songs are what matters.  I'll tend to the flame; you can worship the ashes.  ---  Do you feel heavy?  Your eyes drop with grief.  Your spirit is wild and your suffering is brief.  So never you buckle and bend to the masses.  I'll tend to the flame; you can worship the ashes.  ---  Get round the fire with a glass of strong ale  And tell us a story from beyond the pale.  Bury some seeds and expect some strong branches.  I'll tend to the flame; you can worship the ashes.   ---  Now show me a man that can meet all his needs,  For what we need m...

the first fairy photo



 Puck is so HAPPY TO SEE A FAIRY 🧚

Elsie and the Gnome, featured in Conan Doyle’s The Coming of the Fairies (1922).

The Coming of the Fairies was published — Source 

EXCERPT: So it is perhaps not surprising that when he actually visited the Wright family in the Yorkshire village of Cottingley, Gardner found no reason to suspect there was anything amiss in the photographs. He talked to Elsie’s parents, who (not knowing themselves whether or how the photos had been faked) gave him sincere and honest answers. They told Gardner all they knew: that the two girls had borrowed Elsie’s father’s camera and gone down to a little hidden valley behind the house where the younger girl, Elsie’s cousin Frances, believed she saw fairies. The girls had returned a just short time later with the negative that Elsie’s father developed in his home darkroom: the first fairy photo.  READ: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sir-arthur-and-the-fairies/

The first fairy photograph, featured in Conan Doyle’s The Coming of the Fairies (1922) — Source

 

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