Spirits in bondage; a cycle of lyrics by C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis
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They do not know, they do not know.
L'Envoi The friends I have without a peer Beyond the western ocean's glow, Whither the faerie galleys steer, They do not know: how should they know? 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! |
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