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Oh my heart was light and airy

Like the mist-wing of the fairy

That I loved;

And I sang with song enchanting,

For the angel I was wanting

Dwelt above.

And I fain had clasped the maiden

In her mist-winged robes of Aidenn

With my love;

But my eyes were blind with gleamings,

And my hands, bound fast by dreamings,

Would not move.

Then my heart, with horror filling,

Mid-leap froze with awful chilling

Like to death;

For upon her mist-wings thrilling

Did a demon blow his chilling,

Blasting breath.

Where my Mist-Wing fair was ferried

There my hope and heart lie buried,

Turned to stone;

There the dreams of bygones cheery

Drone a dreary, ceaseless, weary

Monotone.

Where my fairy floats forever

O’er the ripples of the river,

Bound in sleep,

There my fondest fancies follow

And with haunting features hollow

Vigils keep.

From a star a light is streaming

In her golden tresses gleaming

Fair as Hope;

Fade the phantoms faster, faster,

From the Morning-star, life’s vaster

Horoscope.

She is waking, waking, waking,

And my soul and body breaking

Swift apart.

Joy! my spirit soon shall hold her

And forever more enfold her,

Heart to heart.