Here To-Night Where Pass I With Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Here to-night where pass I with
The crowds; here in the pedestrian
Streets of the old city and the old town
Here passed elves and nymphs
And fauns and sileni
Last night.
And it was well past mid-night for
The revelers of the New Year’s Eve
Stood here carousing till well
Past mid-night just before
The small hours of the New Year’s Day
Were deep in breath and holiness:
Then
When all was empty, all was silent too,
My Monsignor, these elves and nymphs
And with them fauns, sileni and the brood
Of fairy world came here trotting by:
The fountain in the distance welled up high
More than it does in the pedestrian day:
But then it was justified in the circumstances
Of night of spell of fairies all the way.