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YEATS endorses the as an alternative to the sorrows of human life (The Stolen Child 1886)

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

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FAIRIES BEHAVING BADLY Armed fey are seen warring with 'rere-mice' for their 'leathern wings', killing caterpillars as 'canker' & spearing a 'red hipped humble bee' in A Midsummer Night's Dream illustrated 1908. Hey fairies leave those bees alone!

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM illustrated by Arthur 1908
Hobgoblin Puck despairs at humankind "'Lord what fools these mortals be" (Act III) & reveals his identity to a fairy "I am that merry wanderer of the night"(Act II)

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