Poems from the book "The Wizard in the Well"

[yukihoshino]

FAIRIES

What could have frightened them away?
They weren't in the least afraid of me
Or a bird or anything I could see,
But softly, Hush! I heard them say,
Hist! and Whist! and Alack-a-day!

Where fairies had danced on a lilac spray
Blue faded into the blossum's blue.
I watched them vanish like drops of dew
Soft in a glimmer of misty grey,
But I am sure they never flew.

They simply vanished into air
As I suppose all fairies do.
But why they did I wish I knew.
Something touched them softly there
And suddenly they weren't anywhere.

Perhaps they heard the distant cry
Of a wounded bird or frightned hare;
Perhaps some creature needing care
Called them away and made them sigh
Alack-a-day! and, alas, Goodbye.

ENCHANTMENT

In a fall of snow as soft as down
A little child went out from town
Far and afar away
Through drifting flakes to the top of a hill
Above a world all strange and still
And lost and far and grey.

And where the child stood on a mound,
Shining upon the snow he found
A curved and silver horn,
An elfin trumpet on which he blew
One silver note! Away snow flew,
And lo! t'was a summer morn!

The sun lay wide and warm and still
Over flowers and grass and hill
That glowed with an elfin gleam--
And soft in the valley lowed the herds
And drowsily sang the summer birds
To a young man lost in dreams.

TREE SONG

O summer tree
Singing to me
A song of shadows blue
Spattered with bright
Trembles of light
Leaves above let through,
When I have made
Of sun and shade
A song of summer too,
Then,
O tree
Singing
to me,
I'll sing my song to you.