"Doubt No More That Oberon" by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
From Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Second April New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921. pp. 62-63.
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DOUBT NO MORE THAT OBERON
DOUBT no more that Oberon–
Never doubt that Pan
Lived, and played a reed, and ran
After nymphs in a dark forest,
In the merry, credulous days,–
Lived, and led a fairy band
Over the indulgent land !
Ah, for in this dourest, sorest
Age man's eye has looked upon,
Death to fauns and death to fays,
Still the dog-wood dares to raise–
Healthy tree, with trunk and root–
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Ivory bowls that bear no fruit,
And the starlings and the jays–
Birds that cannot even sing–
Dare to come again in spring !
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