#20th century poets

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THE FACE OF THE SKIES

Jarin of The Dreaming Tree 🌐
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Who shall loose Orion's bands?
"I!" saith Eternity.
"I with annulling hands
Shall set the Titan free."

Who shall erect upon the sky
New forms of might?
Saith Eternity: "I!
I shall re-people night.

"As a breath on glass,
As witch-fires that burn,
The gods and monsters pass,
Are dust, and return.

"Is the toil much to you
That is little to me?
Such dreams the gods knew,"
Saith Eternity.

— George Sterling, "Sails and Mirage and Other Poems", 1921

The Fairies Have Never a Penny to Spend

Alaereth Seriasin of The Dreaming Tree 🌐
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The fairies have never a penny to spend,
They haven't a thing put by,
But theirs is the dower of bird and flower
And theirs is the earth and sky.
And though you should live in a palace of gold
Or sleep in a dried up ditch,
You could never be as poor as the fairies are,
And never be as rich.

Since ever and ever the world began
They danced like a ribbon of flame,
They have sung their song through the centuries long,
And yet it is never the same.
And though you be foolish or though you be wise,
With hair of silver or gold,
You can never be as young as the fairies are,
And never be as old.

— Rose Fyleman in "Fairies and Chimneys", 1918.