The Fair Folk (poem 11)

Horse and Hattock! are their cries
And though by day we beg and barter with our lives
On moonless nights the fair folk come
To tempt the fitful lusts of falsesworn wives.

We pray the church bells banish all their lies
Before they’ve left a killcrop growing deep inside.

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