Speak of the Fairies
Come away. O human child.
To the woods and waters wild,
With a fairy hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
than you can understand."
-William Butler Yeats, 1865-1935
Saint Francis and Saint Benedight,
Bless this house from wicked Wight:
From the night-mare and the goblin
That is height Good fellow Robin;
Keep it from all evil spirits,
Fairies, weasels, rats and ferrets:
From curfew time,
To the next prime.-William Cartwright, 1611-1643
"By the moon we sport and play,
With the night begins our day;
As we dance, the dew doth fall;
Trip it little urchins all,
Lightly as the little Bee,
Two by two and three by three:
And about go wee, and about go wee."
from "The Maides Metamorphosis"
"Deep into the wood's recesses cool
I see the fairy dancers glide,
In cloth of gold, in gown of green,
My lord and lady side by side."
Dora Sigerson Shorter, 1866-1918
"There never was a merry world since the faeries left off dancing......"
--John Selden, Table Talk
"It bit me!"
"
" What did you expect faeries to do?
"I thought they did nice things like granting wishes."
"Shows what you know don't it"
--Labyrinth