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 Her niminy fingers
 * Her sleep tresses preen,

The which in the combing
 * She peeps out between;
 * Singing down-adown-derry.

Down-adown-derry,
 * Shrill, shrill was her tune:—

"Come to my water-house,
 * Annie Maroon:

Come in your dimity,
 * Ribbon on head,

To wear siller seaweed
 * And coral instead";
 * Singing down-adown-derry.

"Down-adown-derry,
 * Lean fish of the sea,

Bring lanthorns for feasting
 * The gay Faerie;

'Tis sand for the dancing,
 * A music all sweet

In the water-green gloaming
 * For thistledown feet";
 * Singing down-adown-derry.

Down-adown-derry,
 * Sweet Annie Maroon

Looked large on the fairy
 * Curled wan as the moon;