Cleve Woods

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SWEET Avon glides where clinging rushes seem
  To stay his course, and, in his flattering glass,
  Meadows and hills and mellow woodlands pass,
A fairer world as imaged in a dream.
And sometimes, in a visionary gleam,
  From out the secret covert's tangled mass,
  The fisher-bird starts from the rustling grass,
A jewelled shuttle shot along the stream.

Even here, methinks, when moon-lapped shallows smiled
  Round isles no bigger than a baby cot,
Titania found a glowworm-lighted child,
Led far astray, and, with anointing hand
  Sprinkling clear dew from a forget-me-not,
Hailed him the Laureate of her Fairyland.

© Mathilde Blind