Enter these enchanted woods,  
  You who dare.  
  Nothing harms beneath the leaves  
  More than waves a swimmer cleaves.  
  Toss your heart up with the lark,  
  Foot at peace with mouse and worm,  
  Fair you fare.  
  Only at a dread of dark  
  Quaver, and they quit their form:  
  Thousand eyeballs under hoods  
  Have you by the hair.  
  Enter these enchanted woods,  
  You who dare.
The Woods of Westermain, st. 1 (1883).



















