Caprice (Russian Band) - Princess Mee lyrics

Little Princess Mee Lovely was she As in elven-song is told She had pearls in hair All threaded fair Of gossamer shot with gold Was her kerchief made And a silver braid Of stars above her throat Of moth-web light All moonlit-white She wore a woven coat And round her kirtle Was bound a girdle Sewn with diamond dew She walked by day Under mantle grey And hood of clouded blue But she went by night All glittering bright Under the starlit sky And her slippers frail Of fishes' mail Flashed as she went by To her dancing-pool And on mirror cool Of windless water played As a mist of light In whirling flight A glint like gla** she made Wherever her feet Of silver fleet Flicked the dancing-floor Shee was as light As Mee, and as bright But Shee was, strange to tell Hanging down With starry crown Into a bottomless well Her gleaming eyes In great surprise Looked upon to the eyes of Mee A marvellous thing Head-down to swing Above a starry sea Only their feet Could ever meet For where the ways might lie To find a land Where they do not stand But hang down in the sky No one could tell Nor learn in spell In all the elven-lore So still on her own An elf alone Dancing as before With pearls in hair And kirtle fair And slippers frail Of fishes' mail went Mee Of fishes' mail And slippers frail And kirtle fair With pearls in hair went Shee