Mythology & Folklore

Fairies

by Francis Ledwidge 1887–1917

From Last Songs (1918)

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Maiden-poet, come with me
To the heaped up cairn of Maeve,
And there we'll dance a fairy dance
Upon a fairy's grave.

In and out among the trees,
Filling all the night with sound,
The morning, strung upon her star,
Shall chase us round and round.

What are we but fairies too,
Living but in dreams alone,
Or, at the most, but children still,
Innocent and overgrown?

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'Maiden-poet, come with me / To the heaped up cairn of Maeve.' An invitation to a fairy dance upon a fairy's grave.

MLA

Ledwidge, Francis. “Fairies.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/54/.

Chicago

Ledwidge, Francis. “Fairies.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/54/.

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