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Quotation from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. Yeats (editor)
“Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men;”
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, The Trooping Fairies, The Fairies (poem by William Allingham) (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1888 (Project Gutenberg text))
The opening of Allingham's poem, which Yeats places at the head of the first section.
Citation: "Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men;" — W. B. Yeats (editor), Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, The Trooping Fairies, The Fairies (poem by William Allingham) (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1888 (Project Gutenberg text)). (id fairy-and-folk-tales-of-the-irish-peasantry-q3)
Portrait: William Butler Yeats by George Charles Beresford, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.
