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The six lines given make up three different poems. From The Fairies, by Irish poet William Allingham (1850):

Up the airy mountain, down the rushy glen

We dare not go a-hunting for fear of little men

From a traditional Cornish prayer:

From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties

and things that go bump in the night

Good Lord deliver us

And finally from a traditional school girls’ skipping rhyme:

My mother said I never should

Play with the fairies in the wood

If I did, she would say

You naughty girl to disobey

Your hair won’t grow, your shoes won’t shine

You naughty little girl, you shan’t be mine!

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