Charles Hubert Hastings Parry - A Fairy town - текст песни (слова)

While the sun was going down,
 There arose a fairy town.
 Not the town I saw by day,
 Cheerless, joyless, dull and gray,
 But a far, fantastic place,
 Builded with ethereal grace,
 Shimmering in a tender mist
 That the slanting rays had kissed
 Ere they left their latest fire
 Touch with gold each slender spire.
 There no men and women be;
 Mermen, maidens of the sea,
 Combing out their tangled locks,
 Sit and sing amound the rocks.
 As their ruddy harps they sound
 With the seaweed twisted round,
 In the shining sand below
 See the city downward go!