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THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 17. JOURNEY'S END by HUMBERT WOLFE

First Line: AND THEN AS SHE DANCED, / FORGETTING THE SPELL
Last Line: DANCING DELICATELY.
Subject(s): DANCING & DANCERS; FAIRIES; ELVES;

AND then as she danced,
forgetting the spell,
it seemed as though rain
on her eyelashes fell
(and, if they were tears, since no
fairy can shed them,
the moon and the nightingale
must have misled them),
and she cried in her terror,
"Where am I?" The tune
that instant grew louder, a
cloud hid the moon,
and, as though the whole night
were a string to her hand,
the musicianer answered,
"In fairyland."
And when the cloud lifted
there was nothing to see
but the grass, and the moon
dancing delicately.



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