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Their wise little heads with scorning	A
They laid the covers between	B
Do they think we stay here till morning	A
Said Rory and Aileen	B
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When out their bright eyes came peeping	A
The room was no longer there	C
And they fled from the dark world creeping	A
Up a twilight cave of air	C
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They wore each one a gay dress	D
In sleep if you understand	E
When earth puts off its grey dress	D
To robe it in faeryland	E
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Then loud o'erhead was a humming	A
As clear as the wood wind rings	F
And here were the air boats coming	A
And here the airy kings	F
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The magic barks were gleaming	A
And swift as the feathered throng	A
With wonder lights out streaming	A
They blew themselves along	A
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And up on the night wind swimming	A
With pose and dart and rise	G
Away went the air fleet skimming	A
Through a haze of jewel skies	G
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One boat above them drifted	E
Apart from the flying bands	H
And an air chief bent and lifted	E
The children with mighty hands	H
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The children wondered greatly	I
Three air chiefs met them there	C
They were tall and grave and stately	I
With bodies of purple air	C
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A pearl light with misty shimmer	J
Went dancing about them all	K
As the dyes of the moonbow glimmer	J
On a trembling waterfall	K
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The trail of the fleet to the far lands	H
Was wavy along the night	E
And on through the sapphire starlands	H
They followed the wake of light	E
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Look down Aileen said Rory	I
The earth's as thin as a dream	L
It was lit by a sun fire glory	I
Outraying gleam on gleam	L
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They saw through the dream world under	J
Its heart of rainbow flame	M
Where the starry people wander	J
Like gods they went and came	M
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The children looked without talking	A
Till Roray spoke again	N
Are those our folk who are walking	A
Like little shadow men	N
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They don't see what is about them	O
They look like pigmies small	K
The world would be full without them	O
And they think themselves so tall	K
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The magic bark went fleeting	A
Like an eagle on and on	P
Till over its prow came beating	A
The foam light of the dawn	Q
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The children's dream grew fainter	J
Three air chiefs still were there	C
But the sun the shadow painter	J
Drew five on the misty air	C
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The dream light whirled bewild'ring	A
An air chief said You know	R
You are living now my children	S
Ten thousand years ago	R
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They looked at themselves in the old light	E
And mourned the days of the new	T
Where naught is but darkness or cold light	E
Till a bell came striking through	T
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We must go said the wise young sages	H
It was five at dawn by the chimes	H
And they ran through a thousand ages	H
From the old De Danaan Times	H
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August	E

George William Russell

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