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MY QUEST.

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

I LAID me down in the Fairy Ring,

Pillowed by fairy stone;

A bat brushed by on its dusky wing,

And I was left alone;

I slept, and in dreams a fairy hand

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Beckoned me on to the Elfin land.

Hidden away from the realms of day,

Deep in the rock-ribbed earth,

Are caverns whose walls of sombre gray

Bear gems of priceless worth, -

Caverns whose echoes echo again;

There the king of the elves doth reign.

The floors are broad and the vaults are high;

Fairy-craft made them so.

Diamond stars in a turquoise sky,

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