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Barbarafb | 13:58 Sun 27th Feb 2005 | Arts & Literature
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Can anyone point me in the right direction to find the full poem which contains the line:

"We dare not go a-hunting for fear of little men"

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The Fairies by William Allingham

It goes something like

Up the airy mountain
Down the rushy glen,
We dare n't go a-hunting,
For fear of little men;

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Many thanks.  It has been bugging me for weeks.

My mum used to read this to me Barbara when I was a tiny tot. Here's the whole lot:

http://www.sff.net/people/DoyleMacdonald/l_fairie.htm

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Thank you both very much for your answers.  I had remembered some of it - probably from schooldays - but certainly not all.

It was in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film, thats where i knew it from

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