Still the woods are dark and lonely; There the throstle calleth only— There alone the throstle calleth As the silent twilight falleth; All the magic spells are broken, All the ancient charms unspoken. Who to human tongues shall teach That forgotten fairy speech, By whose aid the world of old Did with Nature commune hold? ’Tis the pride of human hearts Whence the gentle fay departs! Ye who now their loss deplore, Ye who would their reign restore, Know that fervent faith and worth Elfin blessings bring to earth; Purest thoughts are brightest chrism In the mystical baptism, Which to those elected duly Lifts the veil, revealing truly Elfin worlds in ’rapt clairvoyance, Elfin marvels, Elfin joyance, Elfin vistas, Elfin vision, Elfin voices, dreams Elysian, Fay-built isles and seas that be Glamour all and gramarye. Where shall point the Elfin wing? Worlds of pure imagining; Then where virtue rules the heart Thence the Fairies ne’er depart! PHILIP DAYRE. _Printed by WALTER SCOTT, Felling, Newcastle-on-Tyne._ * * * * * NOW READY. PRICE 10/6. _On Thick Paper, quaintly bound in Vellum, with Silk Strings._ A LOVER’S LITANIES. BY ERIC MACKAY, _Author of “Love Letters of a Violinist” and “Gladys the Singer.”_ AVE MARIA! First Litany _Virgo Dulcis_. Second Litany _Vox Amoris_. Third Litany _Ad Te Clamavi!_ Fourth Litany _Gratia Plena_. Fifth Litany _Salve Regina_. Sixth Litany _Benedicta Tu_. Seventh Litany _Stella Matutina_. Eighth Litany _Domina Exaudi_. Ninth Litany _Lilium inter Spinas_. Tenth Litany _Gloria in Excelsis_. AMEN! “The _Love Letters_ of Eric Mackay are the handiwork of a brilliant metrical artist and poet born. The series of Letters in six-line stanzas is a beautiful and passionate work:—its beauty that of construction, language, imagery—its passion characteristic of the artistic nature. The poem is quite original, its manner Elizabethan, freshened by a resort to the Italian fountain, from which the clearest streams of English song have so often flowed. Eric Mackay’s poetic ability is of varied range. He is a natural lyrist with a singing faculty and a novel metrical form such as few lyrists have at command.”—_Stedman’s Victorian Poets_, Revised Edition, 1887. LONDON: FIELD & TUER, “THE LEADENHALL PRESS,” 50 LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. _NOTICE._—_Copies of the FIRST VELLUM EDITION of “LOVE LETTERS OF A VIOLINIST,” as published by this firm, are now at a premium of Three Guineas. Book Collectors are respectfully informed that the present Edition of Eric Mackay’s New Volume is strictly limited. Applications should therefore be made at once._ * * * * * THE CANTERBURY POETS EDITED BY WILLIAM SHARP.