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/ I. He makes a roadway of the crumbling fence, / Or on the fallen tree, -- brown as a leaf / Fall stripes with russet, -- gambols down the dense / Green twilight of the woods. We see not whence / He comes, nor whither (in a time so brief) / He vanishes -- swift carrier of some Fay, / Some pixy steed that haunts our child-belief -- / A goblin glimpse upon some wildwood way.
/ II. What harlequin mood of nature qualified / Him so with happiness? and limbed him with / Such young activity as winds, that ride / The ripples, have, dancing on every side? / As sunbeams know, that urge the sap and pith / Through hearts of trees? yet made him to delight, / Gnome-like, in darkness, -- like a moonlight myth, -- / Lairing in labyrinths of the under night.