'T was far away and long ago, <br />When I was but a dreaming boy, <br />This fairy tale of love and woe <br />Entranced my heart with tearful joy; <br />And while with white Undine I wept, <br />Your spirit, -- ah, how strange it seems, -- <br />Was cradled in some star, and slept, <br />Unconscious of her coming dreams.<br /><br />Henry Van Dyke<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/undine/