Fairy Bread

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885

Catalog grade guidance: K–5 — Short children’s lyric; good for early memorization and reading aloud.

10 content lines · 46 words · Est. recitation about 29 sec (approx.)

Public-domain text for reading and recitation practice. Source: Project Gutenberg #136.Estimated time uses ~120 words/minute plus short pauses—not a contest rule.

Fairy Bread

  Come up here, O dusty feet!
       Here is fairy bread to eat.
  Here in my retiring room,
  Children, you may dine
  On the golden smell of broom
       And the shade of pine;
  And when you have eaten well,
  Fairy stories hear and tell.


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