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'Princess Ondine' from 'Harry Big Boots : A fairytale for' Small Folke ', written and illustrated by Susan Elizabeth Gay, 1874.

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Ernst Hass ~ Greece 1952

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Two Rivers

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Echo & The Bunnymen - Seven Seas (Official Music Video)

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The Care - Flaming Sword

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But we that live in Fairyland

No sickness know, nor pain;

I quit my body when I will,

And take to it again.

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Our shapes and size we can convert

To either large or small,

An old nut-shell’s the same to us

As is the lofty hall.

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We sleep in rose-buds soft and sweet,

We revel in the stream,

We wanton lightly on the wind,

Or glide on a sunbeam.

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(Old Ballad)

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The Kern Baby, a Northumberland tradition. The latter photo from Sir Benjamin Stone’s Pictures (1906). “The Kern was a custom of the festival of Ceres once observed in Northumberland, UK, at the close of the reaping. Once the last sheaf was cut this effigy—with white dress, colored ribbons and head of corn ears���was brought out to preside over the harvest festivities“ (@publicdomainreview)

As will be noted from the first three photos, this takes place on St. John’s Eve, June 23 marking the nativity of St. John the Baptist, traditionally observed six months before that of Jesus.

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Love (1895) by Gustav Klimt

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Ernst Fuchs

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Past three o’clock

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3 Carols (arr. R. Elms) : No. 1. Gabriel's Message

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Want for nothing.

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Dragon chairs, ghost chairs, chair gods, trick chairs, giant chairs: all sorts of vintage chairs.

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   Here is a nice hymn, it consists of two short verses, the words, I believe, were written by Samuel Longfellow, who was, apparently, a brother of the well-known poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:-

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Again, as evening’s shadow falls,

We gather in these hallowed walls;

And vesper hymn and vesper prayer

Rise mingling on the holy air.

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O God, our Light! To Thee we bow,

Within all shadows standest Thou:

Give deeper calm than night can bring;

Give sweeter songs than lips can sing.

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Victorian Lullaby by Madame Alexander