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O LITTLE FAIRIES..., by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O little fairies, under your long, long hair
Last Line: What matter that I know it false and vain . . .
Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean
Subject(s): Fairies; Life; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Elves


O LITTLE FAIRIES . . .

O LITTLE fairies, under your long, long hair
Ye sang to me so sweetly in my sleep,
O little fairies, under your long, long hair,
In the charmed forest of enchantment deep.

Mid the charmed forest's rites of mystery,
Compassionate gnomes, while I was sleeping there,
Offered with kind and honest hands to me
Even while I slept, a sceptre gold and fair.

I have learned since that all is false and vain:
The golden sceptre and the forest lay,
But like a fretful, credulous child I fain
Would in that forest sleep my life away.

What matter that I know it false and vain . . .





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