The 99 Poem Challenge
Fox-Trot-9

60. Quatern — Secret Friend

Come share with me this fair delight
Of glowing fairy dust and light,
   For into the woods I've ventured forth
   'Neath underbrush for all its worth.

"All living things from black to white,
Come share with me this fair delight,"
   I say upon the springtime air;
   Then something comes from over there,

Whereat I cast my wond'ring eyes
Upon my friend in her disguise.
   "Come share with me this fair delight?"
   I say unto my playful sprite.

She then appears in fairy dress
And looks upon what I possess:
   "I must invite your friends tonight:
   Come share with them this fair delight."

(To be continued...)

A/N: A Quatern is a 16-line French form composed of four quatrains of eight syllables per line, with a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain; the first line of stanza one is the second line of stanza two, third line of stanza three, and fourth line of stanza four.

Meter: Octosyllabic or iambic terameter
Rhyme: Optional

None: Axxx xAxx xxAx xxxA
Option 1: Abab cAca adAd eaeA
Option 2: Abba cAac daAd aeeA
Option 3: Aabb aAcc ddAa eeaA

Note: This poem starts the narrative concluded in the 80th poem of this collection, "Chant Royal — The Realm of God."