Kind Gnome Wisdom

Artwork ~ The Mermaid Girl by Helen Jacobs

I would be a mermaid fair; I would sing to myself the whole of the day; With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair; And still as I comb'd I would sing and say, 'Who is it loves me? who loves not me?' I would comb my hair till my ringlets would fall                Low adown, low adown, From under my starry sea-bud crown                Low adown and around, And I should look like a fountain of gold        Springing alone        With a shrill inner sound                Over the throne        In the midst of the hall; Till that great sea-snake under the sea From his coiled sleeps in the central deeps Would slowly trail himself sevenfold Round the hall where I sate, and look in at the gate With his large calm eyes for the love of me. And all the mermen under the sea Would feel their immortality Die in their hearts for the love of me.

Artwork ~ Christian Schloe