The Fairies Dancing [de la Mare poem set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2024-04-08

The Fairies Dancing   By Walter De La Mare 

    
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 I heard along the early hills,
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        Ere yet the lark was risen up,
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     Ere yet the dawn with firelight fills
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        The night-dew of the bramble-cup, - 
C G C G
     I heard the fairies in a ring
C Em Am
        Sing as they tripped a lilting round
Bm Am Bm Am
     Soft as the moon on wavering wing.
C G A
        The starlight shook as if with sound,

     As if with echoing, and the stars
        Prankt their bright eyes with trembling gleams
     While red with war the gusty Mars
        Rained upon earth his ruddy beams.
     He shone alone, low down the West,
        While I, behind a hawthorn-bush,
     Watched on the fairies flaxen-tressed
        The fires of the morning flush.
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     Till, as a mist, their beauty died,
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        Their singing shrill and fainter grew;
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     And daylight tremulous and wide
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        Flooded the moorland through and through;
C G Am
     Till Urdon's copper weathercock
C G Em
        Was reared in golden flame afar,
Bm Am
     And dim from moonlit dreams awoke
C G B7
        The towers and groves of Arroar.

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