Mother Gong

Fairy Tales

1. Wassilissa 🎤
2. The Three Tongues 🎤
3. The Pied Piper 🎤

Epilogue

Did I say all? No! One was lame,
And could not dance the whole of the way.
And in after years, if you would blame
His sadness, he was used to say,
'It's dull in our town since my playmates left!
I can't forget that I'm bereft
Of all the pleasant sights they see,
Which the Piper also promised me.

For he led us, he said, to a joyous land,
Joining the town and just at hand,
Where waters gushed and fruit trees grew,
And flowers put forth a fairer hue,
And everything was strange and new;
The sparrows were brighter than peacocks here,
And the dogs outran our fallow deer,
And honey bees had lost their stings,
And horses were born with eagle's wings.