Classic Poem

Come back to our hearts, fairies, fairies,
Wild little folk
Of youth and delight!
For time that has driven you from us carries
After you ever
Our aching sight.
Come back and dance in the Place of our Dreams,
Empty it lies of your glimmering feet;
Come back, for Hope at its portal tarries,
Tuning her harp to their beat.
Come back and tell us immortally
The way of the wind
And the way of waters,
The gull's way on the shining sea,
And ways of the sky's cloud-daughters.
Come back and toil shall again be sweet—
And faith follow, the fairer, after!
O toss to heaven enchantedly
Your song and your singing laughter.
Come back, O come, and the years shall flow
Again—and quicken our hearts to see
Beauty and love, as once, a-glow
Under Spring's witchery!