Captain of our fairy band,
\nA missive from the human land;
\nThese four tired centuries
\nHave not forgotten you to me.
\nI have not seen a stranger space
\nIn any cursed demon place.
\nI watched mortals hollow hills
\nAnd burn the stone to drive their mills
\nThey built these beasts of brick and bone
\nAnd to their maws were children thrown.
\nEver have the mortals fought
\nFor pride in some exalted court
\nBut king of shadows, I have seen
\nWar beyond the Keres\u2019 dreams.
\nI wonder that no firey power
\nE\u2019er disturbed your sleeping bower.
\nJealous king, so rich adorned,
\nThey\u2019ve stolen Amaltheia\u2019s horn
\nIt sits there heaving numbers out
\nFor half the world, when half\u2019s in drought.
\nFairy king, beloved master,
\nNever has the time gone faster.
\nEver I bid your return
\nTo bramble mounds beside the turn
\nOf roaring tarmac scars of land.
\nWhere our woodlands used to stand.
\nI must go, my letter\u2019s done.
\nRound the world again I\u2019ll run.
\nAlone this pageant I must see.
\nLord, what fools these mortals be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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