Date: Mon, 12 Apr 93 11:40:27 -0500
From: Allen Garvin
Subject: Poem (not well known, nor published in his lifetime)
The Fairy Pendant
by
W. B. Yeats
Scene: A circle of Druidic stones
First Fairy: Afar from our lawn and our levee,
O sister of sorrowful gaze!
Where the roses in scarlet are heavy
And dream of the end of their days,
You move in another dominion
And hang o'er the historied stone:
Unpruned in your beautiful pinion
Who wander and whisper alone.
All: Come away while the moon's in the woodland,
We'll dance and then feast in a dairy.
Though youngest of all in our good band,
You are wasting away, little fairy.
Second Fairy: Ah! cruel ones, leave me alone now
While I murmur a little and ponder
The history here in the stone now;
Then away and away will I wander,
And measure the minds of the flowers,
And gaze on the meadow-mice wary,
And number their days and their hours --
All: You're wasting away, little fairy.
Second Fairy: O shining ones, lightly with song pass,
Ah! leave me, I pray you and beg.
My mother drew forth from the long grass
A piece of a nightingale's egg,
And cradled me here where are sung,
Of birds even, longings for aery
Wild wisdoms of spirit and tongue.
All: You're wasting away, little fairy.
First Fairy [turning away]: Though the tenderest roses were
round you,
The soul of the pitiless place
With pititless magic has bound you --
Ah! woe for the loss of your face,
And loss of your laugh with its lightness --
Ah! woe for your wings and your head --
Ah! woe for your eyes and their brightness --
Ah! woe for your slippers of red.
All: Come away while the moon's in the woodland,
We'll dance and then feast in a dairy.
Though youngest of all in our good band,
She is wasting away, little fairy.
- Earendil
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