Simple Rhymes - By Ruby N Ramsell

Dingley Dell

Dingley Dell

I remember the days of my childhood

Ah! yes I remember them well

Where I played alone in the wildwood

Down in Dingley Dell.

How there I stood in a fairy ring

Where a witch had cast her spell

For there seemed to be magic in everything

Down in Dingley Dell.

I knew that grown-ups would look askance

If ever I should tell

How I watched the elves and fairies dance

Down in Dingley Dell.

I used to think "that when I am grown

This is where I am going to dwell

This is where I'll make my home"

Down in Dingley Dell.

As I grew old my childish dreams

Of that place I loved so well

Were lost in pursuit of other schemes

And I forgot about Dingley Dell.

Then I grew old and I searched in vain

For that place I wanted to dwell

And thro' I looked again and again

I could not find Dingley Dell.

But now I know that I was beguiled

For 'twas I who weaved the spell

'Twas only there in the heart of a child

My lovely Dingley Dell.