Here's an early poem by Yeats:
A Faery Song
(Sung by the people of Faery over Diarmuid and Grania
in their bridal sleep under a Cromlech.)
We who are old, old and gay,
O so old!
Thousands of years, thousands of years,
If all were told:
Give to these children, new from the world,
Silence and love;
And the long dew-dropping hours of the night,
And the stars above:
Give to these children, new from the world,
Rest far from men.
Is anything better, anything better?
Tell us it then:
Us who are old, old and gay,
O so old!
Thousands of years, thousands of years,
If all were told.
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Timothy Nelson wrote:
> Savn considers the possibility that Reins was Vlad's "lover", so the concept
> isn't entirely unknown in purely "elven" circles -- a "child" knows about
> the concept enough to consider it and/or joke about it.
>