Introduction.
There is a popular tradition that whoever enters
a Fairy-ring at night is spell-bound, and receives
the visionary faculty, until the dawn of morning dispels
the charm, of communing with such spirits as may
choose to visit him. On the supposition that a stranger
unexpectedly discovers himself in the above-mentioned
situation, the following lines are written; and their
abrupt commencement with the speech of the Stranger
may thus be very naturally accounted for.
The liberty I have taken with the metre will, I trust,
be pardoned, when it is remembered that a regular
versification would but ill accord with the nature of
the subject.
