“…where a kelpie lived”
“A little below the bridge was a pool where a kelpie lived.”
-Sigrid Unset, Kristin Lavransdatter, p. 8
If you are blessed with a little back yard
The smallest of gardens, a bit of grass
Then you have pixies and fairies and sprites
They like you, but they’re awfully shy, you know
If in your garden there is a little pool
Even a dish of water for the cat
Then you have a tiny kelpie or two
(And they are much nicer than you’ve been told)
In flower and leaf and water and soft night air -
Oh, yes, there is sweet magic everywhere
