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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Clarke, Harry, and Taylor, Bayard
WILL-O’-THE WISPS
From the marshes we appear, Where we originated; Yet in the ranks, at once, we’re here As glittering gallants rated.
SHOOTING-STAR
Darting hither from the sky, In star and fire light shooting, Cross-wise now in grass I lie: Who’ll help me to my footing?
THE HEAVY FELLOWS
Room! and round about us, room! Trodden are the grasses: Spirits also, spirits come, And they are bulky masses.
PUCK
Enter not so stall-fed quite, Like elephant-calves about one! And the heaviest weight to-night Be Puck, himself, the stout one!
ARIEL
If loving Nature at your back, Or Mind, the wings uncloses, Follow up my airy track To the mount of roses!
ORCHESTRA
pianissimo Cloud and trailing mist o’erhead Are now illuminated: Air in leaves, and wind in reed, And all is dissipated.