Fairy's Villanelle

An ever-lasting love between a fairy and a gnome.

For the fairy to turn wight into knight
A spell must be cast that needs strands of hay;
Lets them dance and dance through joyous nights.

By day she searches with magical flight
And many a strand she finds on her way
That lets the fairy turn wight into knight.

Upright the gnome stands to hear her recite
A spell that teaches a gnome dance ballet,
And they dance and they dance all through the night,

But they must part before the sun shines bright.
Anew the wight must bide the sun's last ray
For his fairy to turn him in a knight.

He prays that his fairy will be all right
So that they can spin over earth's parquet,
And dance on and on through the moonlit night.

The meadows flood with sun's orange light
So the gnome needs to wait another day
For the fairy to turn wight into knight,
Until again they may dance through the night.