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Doubt no more that Oberon --
Never doubt that Pan
Lived, and played a reed, and ran / After nymphs in a dark forest, / In the merry, credulous days, -- / Lived, and led a fairy band / Over the indulgent land!
Ah, for in this dourest, sorest / Age man's eye has looked upon, / Death to fauns and death to fays, / Still the dog-wood dares to raise -- / Healthy tree, with trunk and root -- / Ivory bowls that bear no fruit, / And the starlings and the jays -- / Birds that cannot even sing -- / Dare to come again in spring!