The Leprechaun
rhapsody March 16th, 2007
By Ernestine Cobern Beyer
I met a little leprechaun.
He gasped and quavered: “Ooo!
I’m seeing things! Be off! Be gone!
There’s no such thing as you!
“You can’t be real, you ugly thing,
So I’m not scared,” he said,
“Though you have neither tail nor wing,
Nor horns upon your head!”
I looked at him, then ran, my dear,
As would, I think, have you,
‘Cause people sometimes disappear
When leprechauns say: “Boo!”
From the wonderful book for children:
Read Me a Rhyme, Please!
by Barbara Beyer Malley -
Available at Barnes & Noble
(& also linked to the right
under ‘Books’)
