Excerpt from The Tragedy of Etarre: A Poem Song Children of the misty plain, Creatures wrought of cloud and rain, Shadowed phantoms of the brain Of the dreaming earth, Fade and vanish in the sun All your magic is undone, All your charmed webs unspun, Tangles little worth, Tattered shreds and wisps of grey By the breezes swept away, Smitten by the swords of day. [during the song the fog has begun Fade and vanish, take you hence, Loose your revel, break your spell, Crush the heaven's lightless shell; Hidden in the magic well, Held enfettered by our thrall, Move no wing and stir no sense, Bide imprisoned till we call. [the fog has entirely cleared] scene: A woodland pool, about which stand three maidens, the first of whom is young, the second in the mid of life, the third old, with grey streaked hair. The trees show autumn leafage. Early morning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.