There once was a fair girl whose name was Maureen,

who dwelt in the mists of the island ‘Vergreen.

She lived with her father.

Her hair was like copper.

She longed for a place that no human had seen.

An old woman told her, when she was a child,

a story about a great realm that’s outside

the edge of the borders,

the reach of the mortals.

A place where the gods and the spirits abide.

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