A Moone of light in the Noone of night
Till the fire-drake hath oer-gone you
The wheel of fortune guide you, the boy with the bow beside you
Runne aye in the Way till the bird of day, And the Luckyer lot betide you.Ben Jonson
“Fair is the moonlight and fair the wood, But not so fair as the place I come from. Why did I leave it, the beautiful country Where Death is only a drifting Shadow? O face of Love, of Dream and Longing, There is sorrow upon me that I am here. I will go back to the Country of the Young, and see again, the lances of the sidh As they keep hosting with laughing cries in pale places under the moon.” — Fiona Macleod |
Here is the story of one fae in particular that you may find interesting…Zherad
I waited for the Moon to rise, and show what Fate would hold Twas then I saw a Lady Fair with eyes of deepest green Her hair was firy strands of light, like none I’d ever seen.Her step made no sound as she passed her body was so slight And I was sure that if she would, she surely could take flight She stopped before she passed me by – These words she said to me Come and let us make our bed beneath yon Greenwood tree
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The gift I give will be whatever you shall ask of me I lay with her the whole night through and clasped her to my chest And knew before the morning’s dew no gift would give me restExcepting if my Lady Fair would ever with me stay And never would we part again or go our separate way I see that you have made your wish, my lady to me said And then she placed a silver crown, upon my weathered headFor she was queen of all the fey, and I am now their king And if you pass the Greenwood tree, you’ll sometimes hear us sing We sing of winters long and cold and springtimes warm and bright And of a lady’s wondrous hair, of firy strands of light
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and the unicorns came out to play, Oh, what fun, what fun On such a brilliantly fine day. The stars they shine in Arcadia’s sky, That now we will know that they will try To remain as happy as ever been, Thus thee would ne’re ever seen.Amerist A’Toll
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Memory in White (c) Luis Royo |
From “The Enchanted Wood” by Ruth Sanderson |
“How beautiful they are, the lordly ones
Who dwell in the hills
In the hollow hills.
They have faces like flowers
And their breath is wind that stirs amid the grasses
Filled with white clover.
Their limbs are more white than shafts of moonshine.
They are more fleet than the March wind.
They laugh and are glad and are terrible:
When their lances shake, every green reed quivers.
How beautiful they are
How beautiful the lordly ones
In the hollow hills.”
— Fiona Macleod
This was excerpted from Galaphine Harrow’s page. Unfortunately, this page has also disappeared, so this is all that is now left of it…
He Who Flows With the Butterflies,
He of the Emerald Isle,
the One Promised from prophecy.
I am borne of faerie.
Unaging, I have and continue to exist
as Caretaker of the winged ones,
and I have guided them
from the shadows of dawn and twilight
throughout the centuries.
Hear my story, mortal one,
for it is an ominous tale indeed,
as ominous as the coming Sunfall.
My winged ones of the sky still fly this day.
Their numbers dwindle,
as it will be unto the foreday before the Sunfall.
On that day, when fly no more my winged ones,
I and my bonded shall be thrown
into the darkest netherlands of the earth
(as the prophecies foretell)
until the dawn of the New Day,
when the Foreboding has shattered,
freeing the spirits of my brethen
and allowing us to return *in harmony* with our beloved earth.
And the laughter fell like Silver Rain
Led me through the grey-trunked walls
Whose golden leaves did never fall
Not even in Winter deep.”
Almathea of the Children of Twilight
to tears of joy, is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity . . . and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.William Blake |
Sanctuary of the fae — Welcome to Lavendise, a place for any fae to come and remind them of who they are and the magic that lies dormant within them. I will be your guide while you are here. In human form I am known as Chris Kringle. Lavendise shall be a center for networking fae all over the world and a place for self discovery. As time moves on I hope that other vales will spring up. Thus creating a networked community of fae. Includes a fairy chat group where you can talk to other fae on the net. |