O spirits heaven born! <br />O kind De Danann souls, <br />Whose music down our story rolls, <br />And holds it near the morn, <br /> <br />You stir the poet heart <br />To dream in quickening rimes <br />The magic of the fairy times <br />That never shall depart! <br /> <br />O fairy people good, <br />Truth-tellers of the dew! <br />The face of truth smiles only true <br />Beneath your beauty's hood; <br /> <br />And wins from idle story <br />Souls that the world would mar, <br />Showing the common things that are <br />As images of glory.<br /><br />Thomas MacDonagh<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fairy-tales-19/
