The Fairy Doctor + 

The fairy doctor comes our way + 

Over the sorrel-covered wold⁠— + 

Now sadly, now unearthly gay, + 

A little withered man, and old. + 

He knows by signs of secret wit + 

The man whose hour of death draws nigh, + 

And who will moan in the under pit, + 

And who foregather in the sky. + 

He sees the fairy hosting move + 

By heath or hollow or rushy mere, + 

And then his heart fills full of love, + 

And full his eyes of fairy cheer. + 

Cures he hath for cow or goat + 

With fairy-smitten udders dry⁠— + 

Cures for calves with ’plaining throat, + 

That sickening near their mothers lie; + 

And many a herb and many a spell + 

For hurts and ails and lover’s moan⁠— + 

For all save him who pining fell, + 

Glamoured by fairies for their own. + 

Now be courteous, now be kind, + 

Lest he may some glamour fold + 

Closely round us, body and mind⁠— + 

The little withered man, and old. + 