Quick the weeping maiden, Aino, Hastens there to join the mermaids, Fairy maidens of the waters.
They all trooped into the Abbey, the hall door standing open, as in a fairy tale.
Then the clock struck three, and it was time to think of leaving this enchanted castle, where no prince or princess of fairytale ever came.
The play began, and to me it was a peep into fairy land.
The fairy vision had not kept its word to these two who had seen it that day upon the beech-holm.
But the dissolving hues gathered new brightness; once again the western horizon was illuminated as by fire; then the light slowly paled, and the fairy vision vanished.
Rendal, a polished versifier, composed for him a series of fairy personifications, with distinct scenery and appropriate action, to introduce new combinations of music.
The music of the “Fairy Fantasies,” as these were called, was one of the latest compositions of Jackson.
Tom had been intended for the law, but, as he said, “My good or ill stars ordained me to be a knight errant in the fairyfields of poetry.
That I should see blood spilt and yet not my own, and finally be very happy and splendid, like the heroine of a fairy tale.
Margery reads a great deal of history; she likes it; she likes all the sensible books in the attic, and I like the rest, particularly poetry and fairy tales.
So I thought of Sunflowers, and how they eat the air, and go to sleep at night, and perhaps look like the three women in the Fairy Tale.
It's five o'clock by my dandelion--I wonder why the fairy clocks all go differently.
My head was much better, so I went up to our attic, and got out the Fairy Book, that I might not think too much about Margery, and it opened of itself at the Puzzling Tale.
Did they look like the picture in the Fairy Book, with their glory leaves folded over their faces?
The boy gave one mighty puff and dispersed hisfairy clock at a breath.
He was always looking forward to what he should do hereafter, or backward to the time when he believed in fairy clocks.
We are very fond of fairy books, and one of our greatest favorites is Bechstein's "As Pretty as Seven.
There is one story in my favorite Fairy Book which Margery likes too; it is called "A Puzzling Tale.
It appears that in his day, notwithstanding some fairies still lurking in the bye-corners of our poets, the whole fairy creed had in fact passed away.
In vain rival concurrents dispute the invention; the patriotic historian of the art clings to his people or his city, to fix the inventor and the invention, and promulgates fairytales to authenticate the most uncertain evidence.
The poet of all youthful poets had a narrow escape from "dark forgetfulness" when from the uncouth Latin hexameters, his "Fairy Queen" took refuge in the melodious stanza of modern Italy.
I cannot persuade myself, however, that he really believed in all these: I rather think he loved to let his imagination carry him away into the boundless fairy land which they unfolded.
My boyish fancy clothed all nature around me with ideal charms, and peopled it with the fairy beings I had read of in poetry and fable.
I watched them with a kind of melancholy pleasure, wondering whether they were under the same spell of the fancy that once rendered this valley a fairy land to me.
In truth, the Beffana was something like a good fairy in the good old times, especially when a gallant young prince sought her favour!
They will all be forthcoming in due time, these saucily abused feminalities, at the quickening trumpet–blast of the fairy knight appointed to the adventure of breathing the soul of womanhood into our Undine–like muse.
There are hands that are waved, when the fairy shore By the mirage is lifted in air; And we sometimes hear, through the turbulent roar, Sweet voices we heard in the days gone before, When the wind down the river is fair.
By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There honor comes a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there!
In the morning hours they were free there from perpetual meetings with undesired company--all outside company being undesirable in the lobby of the fairy universe.
Psyche with the broken thigh is the elusive fairy who, with Morgana-like wand, hath conjured up this mirage of glorious visions which mayhap would vanish again before long?
But when she thought of it all, she did so as one who from the arid plain gazes on the cool streams and golden minarets which the fairy Fata Morgana conjures on the horizon far away.
Louisa Harris had never been beautiful, nor yet a fairy princess of romance--only a commonplace woman!
It was quite a fairy scene; I never saw anything like it before, and I daresay it will be some time before we again witness so brilliant an assembly.
The garlands which had been carried from the Fairy Tree were now spread around the "Well," a ring was formed, and the children danced and sang as they had done about the tree.
Down the hillside path, through Greux, and on through the Bois Chesnu went the two friends, until presently they emerged into the clearing where stood the Fairy Tree in solitary grandeur.
So, slowly, with much groaning on Mengette's part, the two friends came presently to the Fairy Tree, where the rest of the party were already assembled.
In far off Domremy the boys and the girls, the youths and the maidens would be going to the Fairy Tree and the Gooseberry Spring for the "Well Dressing.
It was in the woods, near the Fairy Tree, that they first came to her.
It had been the abode of those fair ladies and brave lords who were wont in the olden time to dance about the Fairy Tree.
They called it The Fairy Tree, because it was believed that in the olden time the fairies used it for a trysting place.
That you have been seen there alone, bewreathing the tree with garlands, and that while so doing you met a wicked fairy who was your fate.
The village was sunk in the profoundest slumber, not a mortal stirring, not a sound afloat, a soft haze covered it all, and the fairymoonlight hovered over the entire landscape.
The instant you left me I put in requisition the only fairy wand I possessed, and money soon placed at my disposal the house which I have the happiness of making once again your own.
However, I doubt if my poor bald head could now make a fairy tale for you, so I will tell you one which I heard so often from my mother that I think I can repeat it word for word.
Last night I heard all you said to the superior, and was about to inquire directly of yourself, when, seeing the effect of my sudden appearance, I was induced to play the fairy once more.
She is a good fairy," said little Mary, "for she can grant three wishes, like the fairy in Finetta.
Ye fairy prospects, then, Ye beds of roses, and ye bowers of joy, Farewell.
And now, children," said Perrault, "how do you like my last fairy tale?
The fairy shook her head, and turned to a statesman, the greatest in all her kingdom: "What say you?
Rivers had found their way through it now, and forests had rooted themselves on the sods that were spread by fairy hands; yet, deep down underneath, the helmet still was wedged among the rocks.
I'm sure you've been in a fairytale to-day, daddy!
I was just beginning to be the good wind-fairy then.
And so, out of the materials that Gull had given him, Mr. Kingsley pleased his little daughter by weaving a wonderful modern fairy story.
The giant balls of stone suddenly took on fearsome suggestions from the realms of fairy tales.
And it's possible the Russians thought the yarn to be merely another native fairy tale," continued Kilbuck, waving a careless hand.
While he turned the pages of a fairytale book, he pointed out the pictures to Jean.
It contains fairy tales and words of wisdom, plays of fancy and jests, parables and legends.
It was reflected from battlements of fairy beauty.
It stopped, quivered, and curved itself upward until it rattled like a fairy drum upon the glass shield.
See those three rocks down there that look like 'the Big Bear, the Middle-Sized Bear and the Little Bear,' in the fairy story!
Now Mrs. Burton is going to do something for me which seems more wonderful than anything she has ever done for any one else, although I know she has been a fairy godmother to a good many people.
On the side toward the beach the tiny beads of water glistening amid the rose color of the ice plants shone like tiny fairy jewels.
Thus Madame painted him very happily by an illustration from fairy tales, of which she was full.
The door of her house was always thrown back, disclosing a grating, through which could be perceived a true fairy palace, such as is sometimes described in romances.
Him on the giddy brink Of pearly heaven His fairy anvil clink.
I picture thee within with dainty satin sides, Where all the long day through the sleeping dryad dreams, But when the moon bends low and taps thee thrice she glides, Knowing the fairy knock, to bask within her beams.
