"Wild fawn, wild fawn,

Dost thou flee the Green Lady?

Her wild flowers will race thee,

Her sunbeams will chase thee,

Her laughter is singing aloud in the dawn—

O the Green Lady

With yellow flowers strewing the ways of the dawn,

Wild fawn, wild fawn!"

Even the hawk-keen eye of Nial failed to discover Oona. Her voice came from a covert of bracken, amid which rose craggy mossed boulders. Doubtless, the girl sheltered behind one of these.

"Oona!"