Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 2. DIFFICULTIES IN FAIRYLAND, by HUMBERT WOLFE


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THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 2. DIFFICULTIES IN FAIRYLAND, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But how had she come there? / and wherefore? And when?
Last Line: The rest of them wrong
Subject(s): Fairies; Elves


BUT how had she come there?
and wherefore? and when?
On thing at a time! She'd been
stolen from men;
and, though she was fairy in
face, form and size,
there was always the shadow
of earth in her eyes.
There was always a whisper
that set her apart
in the jewel they gave her in
place of a heart,
which lent to her music
the beauty that springs
from the menace of death
in immortal things.
But the fairies were puzzled
and, after a bit,
they complained to the Queen
that her favourite,
though the first in the ballet,
the sweetest in song,
had a touch that put all of
the rest of them wrong





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