Here To-Night Where Pass I With

Here to-night where pass I with The crowds; here in the pedestrian Streets of the old city and the old town Here passed elves and nymphs And fauns and sileni Last night. And it was well past mid-night for The revelers of the New Year’s Eve Stood here carousing till well Past mid-night just before The small hours of the New Year’s Day Were deep in breath and holiness: Then When all was empty, all was silent too, My Monsignor, these elves and nymphs And with them fauns, sileni and the brood Of fairy world came here trotting by: The fountain in the distance welled up high More than it does in the pedestrian day: But then it was justified in the circumstances Of night of spell of fairies all the way.