Death & Dying

The Death of Tuck

by Eugene Lee-Hamilton 1845–1907

From The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1912)

Death & Dying

I fear that Puck is dead, — it is so long
Since men last saw him; — dead with all the rest
Of that sweet elfin crew that made their nest
In hollow nuts, where hazels sing their song;
Dead and for ever, like the antique throng
The elves replaced: the Dryad that you guess'd
Behind the leaves; the Naiad weed-bedress'd;
The leaf-ear'd Faun that loved to lead you wrong.

Tell me, thou hopping Robin, hast thou met
A little man, no bigger than thyself,
Whom they call Puck, where woodland bells are wet?

MLA

Lee-Hamilton, Eugene. “The Death of Tuck.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lee-hamilton/38/.

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Lee-Hamilton, Eugene. “The Death of Tuck.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lee-hamilton/38/.

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