The Fairy's Hart

Within dark wood this fairy maiden spies
this man who sets her heart ablaze with love.
Bold and strong with raven hair and eyes
that put to shame the sparkling stars above.
She cries, O Father, let me take this one
and bury him within my ardent breast
Says Oberon, my heart is as a stone;
to capture his, you first must pass this test.
These verses do describe the very play
which Fairy King to daughter did impart.
For he bade her to forswear powers fae,
and gave ‘till dawn to snare her lover’s heart.

  And so begins this fairy's hunting game,
  will her mark flee, or set his heart to flame?