Explore "The Fairies' Siege" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
I have been given my charge to keep -- / Well have I kept the same! / Playing with strife for the most of my life, / But this is a different game. / _I_'ll not fight against swords unseen, / Or spears that I cannot view -- / Hand him the keys of the place on your knees -- / 'Tis the Dreamer whose dreams come true!
Ask for his terms and accept them at once. / Quick, ere we anger him; go! / Never before have I flinched from the guns, / But this is a different show. / _I_'ll not fight with the Herald of God / (I know what his Master can do! ) / Open the gate, he must enter in state, / 'Tis the Dreamer whose dreams come true!
I'd not give way for an Emperor, / I'd hold my road for a King -- / To the Triple Crown I would not bow down -- / But this is a different thing. / _I_'ll not fight with the Powers of Air, / Sentry, pass him through! / Drawbridge let fall, it's the Lord of us all, / The Dreamer whose dreams come true!