Faeries Page 2

"Come faeries, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame."
W.B. Yeats

Faery Song

We who are old, old and gay,
O so old!
Thousands of years, thousands of years,
If all were told:

Give to these children, new from the world,
Silence and love;
And the long dew-dropping hours of the night,
And the stars above:

Give to these children, new from the world,
Rest far from men.
Is anything better, anything better?
Tell us it then:

Us who are old, old and gay,
O so old!
Thousands of years, thousands of years,
If all were told.

There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing....
John Selden, Table Talk

Child of the pure unclouded brow
And dreaming eyes of wonder,
Though time be fleet, and I and thou
Are half a life asunder,
Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy-tale.
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

I met a lady in the meads
Full beautiful, a faery's child;
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
John Keats, To a Nightingale

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 we, about go we.
John Lyly, "The Maydes Metamorphosis"

"Faerie" is the generic term for all creatures who are neither in God's nor the devil's service. Faeries inhabit most countries of the world. Irish Leprechauns, Scottish Brownies, and German Kobolds are all faeries....

In Ireland there are 2 faerie types - trooping and solitary. The trooping faeries delight in company while the solitary faeries prefer to be left alone and seperate from one another.

Some of the faeries were done by Melissa Metesh and Mark Ivan Cole and Jeffrey Bedrick.

Music is Fairy Tale by Enya
Page last updated 9/26/00