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Love Songs of Childhood
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The Fly-Away Horse
Oh, a wonderful horse is the Fly-Away Horse - Perhaps you have seen him before; Perhaps, while you slept, his shadow has swept Through the moonlight that floats on the floor. For it’s only at night, when the stars twinkle bright, That the Fly-Away Horse, with a neigh And a pull at his rein and a toss of his mane, Is up on his heels and away! The Moon in the sky, As he gallopeth by, Cries: "Oh! what a marvelous sight!" And the Stars in dismay Hide their faces away In the lap of old Grandmother Night.
It is yonder, out yonder, the Fly-Away Horse Speedeth ever and ever away - Over meadows and lanes, over mountains and plains, Over streamlets that sing at their play; And over the sea like a ghost sweepeth he, While the ships they go sailing below, And he speedeth so fast that the men at the mast Adjudge him some portent of woe. "What ho there!" they cry, As he flourishes by With a whisk of his beautiful tail; And the fish in the sea Are as scared as can be, From the nautilus up to the whale!
And the Fly-Away Horse seeks those faraway lands You little folk dream of at night - Where candy-trees grow, and honey-brooks flow, And corn-fields with popcorn are white; And the beasts in the wood are ever so good To children who visit them there - What glory astride of a lion to ride, Or to wrestle around with a bear! The monkeys, they say: "Come on, let us play," And they frisk in the cocoanut-trees: While the parrots, that cling To the peanut-vines, sing Or converse with comparative ease!
Off! scamper to bed - you shall ride him tonight! For, as soon as you’ve fallen asleep, With a jubilant neigh he shall bear you away Over forest and hillside and deep! But tell us, my dear, all you see and you hear In those beautiful lands over there, Where the Fly-Away Horse wings his faraway course With the wee one consigned to his care. Then grandma will cry In amazement: "Oh, my!" And she’ll think it could never be so; And only we two Shall know it is true - You and I, little precious! shall know!
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Chicago:
Eugene Field, "The Fly-Away Horse," Love Songs of Childhood in Love Songs of Childhood (New York: George E. Wood, 1850), Original Sources, accessed July 13, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KPUXHQEQU8AQ5WN.
MLA:
Field, Eugene. "The Fly-Away Horse." Love Songs of Childhood, in Love Songs of Childhood, New York, George E. Wood, 1850, Original Sources. 13 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KPUXHQEQU8AQ5WN.
Harvard:
Field, E, 'The Fly-Away Horse' in Love Songs of Childhood. cited in 1850, Love Songs of Childhood, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 13 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KPUXHQEQU8AQ5WN.
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