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About the time when bluebells swing	A
Their elfin belfries for the bee	B
And in the fragrant House of Spring	A
Wild Music moves and Fantasy	B
Sits weaving webs of witchery	C
And Beauty's self in silence leans	D
Above the brook and through her hair	C
Beholds her face reflected there	C
And wonders what the vision means	D
About the time when bluebells swing	A
I found a path of glooms and gleams	E
A way that Childhood oft has gone	F
That leads into the Wood of Dreams	E
Where as of old dwell Fay and Faun	F
And Fa rie dances until dawn	F
And Elfland calls from her blue cave	G
Or starbright on her snow white steed	H
Rides blowing on a silver reed	H
That Magic follows like a slave	G
I found a path of glooms and gleams	E
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And in that Wood I came again	F
On old enchantments There behold	I
I saw them pass a kingly train	F
Fable and Legend wise and old	I
In garb of glimmering green and gold	I
While far away forgotten bells	J
And horns of Fa rie made faint sound	K
And all the anxious heaven around	K
And earth grew gossamered with spells	J
And whirled with ouphen feet again	F
	-
And lo I saw the ancient Hall	L
Of Story rise where Dreams conspire	C
With Words and Music to enthrall	L
The Yearning of the soul's desire	C
Holding it fast with charm d fire	C
Where Glamour bows in servitude	M
And Lord of Ecstasy and Awe	N
Song with his henchmen Lore and Law	L
Sits 'mid the mighty Brotherhood	O
Of Beauty in that twilight Hall	L
	-
Then far away the forest rang	P
With something more than bugle calls	Q
A voice a summons wild that sang	P
As if Adventure in his halls	Q
Awoke or Daring on the walls	Q
Shouted to Youth to take his stand	R
Before the wizard guarded tower	C
Where Love within her secret bower	C
Beckons him on with moon white hand	R
Why was it that the forest rang	P
	-
And then I knew It was my Sprite	S
My Witch whose spells had led me far	C
Who held me with the old delight	S
And drew my soul beyond the bar	C
Of all the real like a star	C
How long ago how far that day	T
Since first I met her in the wild	U
And on my face her white face smiled	U
And my child fears she soothed away	T
Ay ay 'twas she my airy Sprite	S
	-
And on my heart again the hour	C
Flashed as when first she gazed at me	B
Her loveliness clothed on with power	C
And joy and godlike mystery	B
A portion of Earth's ecstasy	B
Again I felt in ways unknown	F
Down in my soul a memory waken	F
Of some far kiss once given and taken	F
That made me hers her very own	F
Once every year for one brief hour	C
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A Dryad laughed among the trees	V
A Naiad flashed with limbs a spark	W
A Satyr reached rough arms to seize	V
A Faun foot danced adown the dark	W
To music of rude pipes of bark	W
Earth crowded all its shapes around	K
Myths bare and beautiful of breast	X
'Mid whom pursuing passion pressed	X
Wild Pan like leaping from the ground	K
A Dryad laughed among the trees	V
	-
Then Elfdom in a starlike rain	F
To right and left rose blossoms slim	Y
And urged its Joy in twinkling train	F
Down many a flower and rainbow rim	Y
Of moonbeam Fancy sat with Whim	Y
And from the ferns gleamed glowworm eyes	Z
Where Fa rie held its Court and green	F
An impish spirit ran between	F
With Puck like laughter of surprise	Z
And firefly flickerings wild as rain	F
	-
Then suddenly a light that grew	C
And in the light my Witch who stood	O
As crystal evident as dew	C
Weaving a spell that made the wood	O
Take on a dream's similitude	O
And lo through radiance and perfume	A2
I saw Romance crowned with a crown	F
And Chivalry come riding down	F
On two great steeds all gold and gloom	A2
Round whom the splendor grew and grew	C
	-
And of the Dream the forest dreams	E
Again my soul becomes a part	O
Again my magic armor gleams	E
Again beneath its steel my heart	O
Throbs all impatient for the start	O
Again the towers of Time and Chance	B2
Loom grimly where forever fair	C
Wrapped in the glory of her hair	C
Beauty lies bound by Necromance	B2
The Beauty that we know in dreams	B2
	-
And as before again I smile	L
Delaying still to break the spell	L
Facing the gateway of old Guile	L
Where hangs the slug horn that shall knell	L
Defiance to the Courts of Hell	L
'Then Elfdom in a starlike rain	F
To right and left rose blossom slim '	-
What though around me torch on torch	C2
The eyes of Danger glowering wait	O
What though Death heaves a sword of hate	O
Beneath the gate's enchanted arch	D2
I raise the horn again and smile	L
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What now O Night shall make me pause	B2
I face the darkness of the tomb	A2
That stirs with clank of iron claws	B2
And threatenngs of gigantic doom	A2
The monster in the granite gloom	A2
And then full in the face of Night	O
I hurl my challenge blast on blast	O
The drawbridge thunders and the vast	O
Echoes with batlike wings in flight	O
There is no thing to give me pause	B2
	-
My heart sings bounding to its quest	O
I mount the stairs to where she sleeps	B2
A rose upon her brow and breast	O
And in her long hair's golden deeps	B2
The glory of the youth she keeps	B2
I kneel again I clasp her there	C
I kiss her mouth but lo behold	O
Her beauty crumbles into mold	O
'And all the castle goes in air	C
And with it all my heart's high quest	O
	-
And in the wood I wake again	F
The Dream is gone as is the child	O
Who followed far in rapture's train	F
And by a vision was beguiled	O
The Witch the Presence undefiled	O
Whose call still sounds o'er holt and hollow	L
An elfin bugle in the morn	F
And in the eve a faery horn	F
Bidding the dreaming heart to follow	L
The child in man that hears again	F
	-
For what we dream is never lost	O
Dreams mold the soul within the clay	T
The rapture and the pentecost	O
Of beauty shape our lives some way	T
They are the beam the guiding ray	T
That Nature dowers us with at birth	E2
And like the light upon the crown	F
Of some dark hill that towers down	F
Point us to Heaven not to Earth	E2
Above the world where dreams are lost	O

Madison Julius Cawein

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