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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FAIRY'S SISTER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography
First Line: One day when the wind rode high
Last Line: I will hear and follow!
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: One day when the wind rode high
Last Line: I will hear and follow!
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
ONE day when the wind rode high,
Suddenly I missed her!—
In bright battalions from the sky
A host of singing leaves swept by—
Then the wind was still—but I
Could not find my sister!
Round this mortal world, so old,
I have sought her, calling,
Where pink-petaled dawns unfold
Where the blue ice cracks with cold,
Where the full moon hides her gold
And the stars are falling!
By the ways of Here and There
I have searched, unbidden,
Climbed the sinking sun's bright stair,
Told her name to every air,
Echoed it in caverns where
Purple night lies hidden!
Never has she answered me,
Not with song nor sighing—
Can such utter silence be
With a bird on every tree,
With the singing of the sea
And a white gull crying?
Help me, children, mortal-born!
Help me, lark and swallow,
Should you meet a sprite forlorn,
Hair like tassel of the corn,
Blow the honeysuckle's horn—
I will hear and follow!
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