The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch by R. C. Lehmann
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"In Oberon's reign,"
So they're heard to complain, "When we went out at night we could temper our fun With some manners in dancing, but now there are none." But at last, though the music goes gallantly on, And the dancers are none of them weary or gone, When the gauze is in rags and the hair is awry, Comes a light in the East and a sudden cock-cry. With a scurry of fear Then they all disappear, Leaving never a trace of their gay little selves Or the winter-night dance of the fairies and elves. PANSIES Tufted and bunched and ranged with careless art Here, where the paving-stones are set apart, Alert and gay and innocent of guile, The little pansies nod their heads and smile. With what a whispering and a lulling sound They watch the children sport about the ground, Longing, it seems, to join the pretty play That laughs and runs the light-winged hours away. And other children long ago there were Who shone and played and made the garden fair, To whom the pansies in their robes of white |
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