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TWO fairies
it was
On a still summer day
Came forth in the
woods
With the flowers to play.
The flowers they
plucked
They cast on the ground
For others, and
those
For still others they found.
Flower-guided
it was
That they came as they ran
On something
that lay
In the shape of a man.
The snow must have
made
The feathery bed
When this one fell
On the
sleep of the dead.
But the snow was gone
A long
time ago,
And the body he wore
Nigh gone with the
snow.
The fairies drew near
And keenly espied
A
ring on his hand
And a chain at his side.
They
knelt in the leaves
And eerily played
With the
glittering things,
And were not afraid.
And when
they went home
To hide in their burrow,
They took
them along
To play with to-morrow.
When you came
on death,
Did you not come flower-guided
Like the
elves in the wood?
I remember that I did.
But I
recognised death
With sorrow and dread,
And I
hated and hate
The spoils of the dead.
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