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!
