Princess mee - Caprice

Little Princess Mee

Lovely was she

As in elven-song is told

She had pearls in hair

All threaded fair

Of gossamer shot with gold

Was her kerchief made

And a silver braid

Of stars above her throat

Of moth-web light

All moonlit-white

She wore a woven coat

And round her kirtle

Was bound a girdle

Sewn with diamond dew

She walked by day

Under mantle grey

And hood of clouded blue

But she went by night

All glittering bright

Under the starlit sky

And her slippers frail

Of fishes' mail

Flashed as she went by

To her dancing-pool

And on mirror cool

Of windless water played

As a mist of light

In whirling flight

A glint like glass she made

Wherever her feet

Of silver fleet

Flicked the dancing-floor

Shee was as light

As Mee, and as bright

But Shee was, strange to tell

Hanging down

With starry crown

Into a bottomless well

Her gleaming eyes

In great surprise

Looked upon to the eyes of Mee

A marvellous thing

Head-down to swing

Above a starry sea

Only their feet

Could ever meet

For where the ways might lie

To find a land

Where they do not stand

But hang down in the sky

No one could tell

Nor learn in spell

In all the elven-lore

So still on her own

An elf alone

Dancing as before

With pearls in hair

And kirtle fair

And slippers frail

Of fishes' mail went Mee

Of fishes' mail

And slippers frail

And kirtle fair

With pearls in hair went Shee