XXIX + 

Night + 

I know a little Druid wood + 

Where I would slumber if I could + 

And have the murmuring of the stream + 

To mingle with a midnight dream, + 

And have the holy hazel trees + 

To play above me in the breeze, + 

And smell the thorny eglantine; + 

For there the white owls all night long + 

In the scented gloom divine + 

Hear the wild, strange, tuneless song + 

Of faerie voices, thin and high + 

As the bat’s unearthly cry, + 

And the measure of their shoon + 

Dancing, dancing, under the moon, + 

Until, amid the pale of dawn + 

The wandering stars begin to swoon.⁠ ⁠… + 

Ah, leave the world and come away! + 

The windy folk are in the glade, + 

And men have seen their revels, laid + 

In secret on some flowery lawn + 

Underneath the beechen covers + 

Kings of old, I’ve heard them say, + 

Here have found them faerie lovers + 

That charmed them out of life and kissed + 

Their lips with cold lips unafraid, + 

And such a spell around them made + 

That they have passed beyond the mist + 

And fount eh Country-under-wave.⁠ ⁠… + 

Kings of old, whom none could save! + 