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THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 15. THE SECOND MIDSUMMER EVE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She became so depressed that / I really believe
Last Line: West of the sun.
Subject(s): Fairies; Elves


SHE became so depressed that
I really believe,
when she sat in her garden
on Midsummer Eve,
she never observed that
far down on the right
a little dark lantern was
showing a light,
nor heard the first
magical whisper begin
of a voice half an opal and
half violin,
nor felt how the air
grew as sweet as the hush
between the two thrills in
the song of a thrush.
The little white house grew
dimmer, and seemed
not a house but a little white
thought she had dreamed,
and each little tree was a
little green tale
that was sung in her dream
by a nightingale --
the tale that still ends where
the song had begun,
East of the Moon, and
West of the Sun.





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