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标题：The Faults of Fairies.
作者：Moeller, Rosemary Dunn
期刊名称：The Upstart Crow
印刷版ISSN：0886-2168
出版年度：2009
期号：January
语种：English
出版社：Clemson University, Clemson University Digital Press, Center for Electronic and Digital Publishing

摘要：

 THE FAULTS OF FAIRIES     So we can blame it all on Oberon,    the heat, the storms, the warming world of floods,    and hurricanes, the droughts and hail, the dry    ice days when winter fog invades the house.    I envy those who lived when answers came    as simply as a faith in fairies' faults,    for now our summer bakes our fields to dust    and rumors of worse winters are the norm.    Perhaps Shakespeare was right to blame this fate    on excess of frivolity and greed.    Like Oberon, Titania no restraint    would show in travel, taste or meddling.    They fought about a pet like squabbling parents    while all around their world was withering.    Like us they didn't focus on the need    for measured conservation of their powers.

The Faults of Fairies.

Moeller, Rosemary Dunn

THE FAULTS OF FAIRIES

   So we can blame it all on Oberon,
   the heat, the storms, the warming world of floods,
   and hurricanes, the droughts and hail, the dry
   ice days when winter fog invades the house.
   I envy those who lived when answers came
   as simply as a faith in fairies' faults,
   for now our summer bakes our fields to dust
   and rumors of worse winters are the norm.
   Perhaps Shakespeare was right to blame this fate
   on excess of frivolity and greed.
   Like Oberon, Titania no restraint
   would show in travel, taste or meddling.
   They fought about a pet like squabbling parents
   while all around their world was withering.
   Like us they didn't focus on the need
   for measured conservation of their powers.