The Poetry Corner

What the Gray-winged Fairy Said

By Vachel Lindsay

(Moon Poems for the Children/Fairy-tales for the Children) The moon's a gong, hung in the wild, Whose song the fays hold dear. Of course you do not hear it, child. It takes a FAIRY ear. The full moon is a splendid gong That beats as night grows still. It sounds above the evening song Of dove or whippoorwill.