Fancy's Home

Fancy's Home written by William Henry Davies

From "Songs of Joy", 1911

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Tell me, Fancy, sweetest child,
  Of thy parents and thy birth;
Had they silk, and had they gold,
  And a park to wander forth,
With a castle green and old?

In a cottage I was born,
  My kind father was Content,
My dear mother Innocence;
  On wild fruits of wonderment
I have nourished ever since.

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