And remain a woodland elf?
Wish—and thou hast power to be
Thing as wild, from earth as free,
As the Elf who speaks to thee!
Wish it not!—then count the cost—
To the Fairies thou art lost,
Never more in forest wild
Shalt thou act the elfin child;
Never, free from mortal care,
Flit on elf-wings through the air: