OBERON
Only on pain of what we fairies call
Death!
SHADOW-OF-A-LEAF
Death?
OBERON
Never to join our happy revels,
Never to pass the gates of fairyland
Again, but die like mortals. What that means
We do not know—who knows?
SHADOW-OF-A-LEAF
If I could save them!—
I am only Shadow-of-a-Leaf!
OBERON
There is a King
Beyond the seas. If he came home in time,
All might be well. We fairies only catch
Stray gleams, wandering shadows of things to come.