the woodpecker which describes her (she is a The 

 wise -woman in the folk -tales) as knowing Awakener 

 where the spring-wurzel grows, that mys- Woods, 

 terious plant of Pan and the sun with which 

 one may open the faces of cliffs with a breath, 

 as did the deer -mother of Oisin of the Songs, 

 with which too one may find the secret ways 

 of Venusberg and behold incalculable treasure. 

 For hark ! . . . Pak-a-Pak, and the long 

 cry of love ! It is answered from the listening 

 woods ! Here must ' the spring-wurzel ' grow 

 . . . here, for sure, are the green palaces of 

 Venusberg, here, at very hand, are the incal- 

 culable treasures of the awakened Forest. 



123 



