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<h4>THE MORTAL ANSWERS</h4> .................COME AWAY— WITH THE FAIRIES, HAND IN HAND, FOR THE WORLD IS MORE FULL OF WEEPING THAN YOU CAN UNDERSTAND. W.B. Yeats. From the Wood of the Old Wives' Fables They glittered out of the grey, And with all the Armies of Elf-land I strove like a beast at bay; With only a right arm wearied, Only a red sword worn, And the pride of the House of Adam That holdeth the stars in scorn. For they came with chains of flowers And lilies lances free, There in the quiet greenwood To take my grief from me. And I said, "Now all is shaken When heavily hangs the brow, When the hope of the years is taken The last star sunken. Now— "Hear, you chattering cricket, Hear, you spawn of the sod, The strange strong cry in the darkness Of one man praising God, "That out of the night and nothing With travail of birth he came To stand one hour in the sunlight Only to say her name. "Falls through her hair the sunshine In showers; it touches, see, Her high bright cheeks in turning; Ah, Elfin Company, "The world is hot and cruel, We are weary of heart and hand. But the world is more full of glory Than you can understand." <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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