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The children awoke in their dreaming	A
While earth lay dewy and still	B
They followed the rill in its gleaming	A
To the heart light of the hill	B
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Its sounds and sights were forsaking	A
The world as they faded in sleep	C
When they heard a music breaking	A
Out from the heart light deep	C
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It ran where the rill in its flowing	A
Under the star light gay	D
With wonderful colour was glowing	A
Like the bubbles they blew in their play	D
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From the misty mountain under	E
Shot gleams of an opal star	F
Its pathways of rainbow wonder	E
Rayed to their feet from afar	F
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From their feet as they strayed in the meadow	G
It led through caverned aisles	H
Filled with purple and green light and shadow	G
For mystic miles on miles	H
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The children were glad it was lonely	I
To play on the hill side by day	D
But now they said we have only	I
To go where the good people stray	D
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For all the hill side was haunted	J
By the faery folk come again	K
And down in the heart light enchanted	L
Were opal coloured men	K
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They moved like kings unattended	L
Without a squire or dame	M
But they wore tiaras splendid	J
With feathers of starlight flame	M
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They laughed at the children over	E
And called them into the heart	N
Come down here each sleepless rover	E
We will show you some of our art	N
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And down through the cool of the mountain	O
The children sank at the call	P
And stood in a blazing fountain	O
And never a mountain at all	P
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The lights were coming and going	A
In many a shining strand	Q
For the opal fire kings were blowing	A
The darkness out of the land	Q
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This golden breath was a madness	R
To set a poet on fire	E
And this was a cure for sadness	R
And that the ease of desire	E
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And all night long over Eri	E
They fought with the wand of light	S
And love that never grew weary	E
The evil things of night	S
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They said as dawn glimmered hoary	E
We will show yourselves for an hour	E
And the children were changed to a glory	E
By the beautiful magic of power	E
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The fire kings smiled on their faces	T
And called them by olden names	U
Till they towered like the starry races	T
All plumed with the twilight flames	U
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They talked for a while together	E
How the toil of ages oppressed	V
And of how they best could weather	E
The ship of the world to its rest	V
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The dawn in the room was straying	A
The children began to blink	W
When they heard a far voice saying	A
You can grow like that if you think	W
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The sun came in yellow and gay light	S
They tumbled out of the cot	X
And half of the dream went with daylight	S
And half was never forgot	X
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July	Y

George William Russell

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