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 xii And taste their wine, ere all be done,

And face more welcome shall be none

Among the guests of Oberon.

Ay, of that feast shall tales be told,

The marvels of that world of gold

To children young, when you are old.

When you are old! Ah, dateless when,

For youth shall perish among men,

And Spring herself be ancient then.

A. L.

1889.