Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 5. HER DEPARTURE FROM FAIRYLAND, by HUMBERT WOLFE


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THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 5. HER DEPARTURE FROM FAIRYLAND, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She left with a dash / in the little gold cab
Last Line: An empty hand.
Subject(s): Fairies; Elves


SHE left with a dash
in the little gold cab
that the atomies draw
when escorting Queen Mab;
and the Court saw her off
with confetti and rice,
and the Queen, before all of them,
kissed her mouth twice.
And the fairy within her cried,
"Why should I go?
I will stay with my own." But
the mortal said "No!"
Yet she dared not look back
upon fairyland,
lest she saw her Queen stretching
an empty hand.





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