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HERE once lived a beautiful Fairy, Who floated around in the sky. She was always inventing new wonders To please or astonish the eye. As soon as she finished one notion She’d start again, hunting around All over the sky to discover What new things there were to be found.

It happened one day to be raining. When out of her home in a star This beautiful Goddess came riding; But hadn’t progressed very far When she met an ambitious young Sunbeam; And, resting a while on a wall, She told him she’d lately discovered The greatest invention of all.

The Moon was this Goddess’s workshop, And up there they wended their flight. Then she gave him a dozen small Raindrops And asked him to shine them up bright. He scrubbed and he rubbed, till he had them So bright they were all of a glow; And ere the good Fairy perceived it He’d shined up a hundred or so.