Excerpt from Wonder Tales From Wagner: Told for Young People

"Hark! Gay fanfares from halts of old Romance
Strike through the clouds of clamor: who be these
That, paired in rich processional, advance
From darkness.?
Bright ladies and brave knights of Fatherland,
Sad mariners no harbor e'er may hold,
A swan soft floating towards a magic strand,
Dim ghosts of earth, air, water, fire, steel, gold,
Wind, grief, and love, a lewd and lurking band
Of Powers - dark Conspiracy, Cunning cold,
Gray Sorcery.
O Wagner, westward bring thy heavenly art,
No trifler thou.
Thine ears hear deeper than thine eyes can see."

Sidney Lanier.

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