Ariel's Song; Act One, Scene Two of William Shakespeare's The Tempest

[kerk_hiraeth]

 

 

 

     This, after a time, became the inspiration behind my characterisation of Faith in the FemaleHusband!verse.

 

   It comes from Act 1, Scene 2 of William Shakespeare's The Tempest; best version of which; on screen at least; not seen a stage version as of yet, was that starring Helen Mirren.

 

 

     Ariel's Song

 

   Come unto these yellow sands,

   And takes these hands :

   Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd,

   The wild waves whist,

   Foot it fealty here and there ;

   And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.

   Hark, hark!

   Bow, wow,

   The watch-dogs bark :

   Bow, wow,

   Hark, hark! I hear

   The strain of strutting Chanticleer

   Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.

 

 

     In an early image I have of the Faith in that 'verse, she is thinking of herself as “having come back to be Tara's faithful guard-dog”; though she takes over from another stalwart of Buffy fandom with apparent equanimity enough, and indeed comes to discover sides to her own self-identity that she never would have seen if she had not returned to the Slayer fold. 


   Though my muse has been very uncommunicative since February of last year I still very much hope that 2018 will not be my first barren year for more than a decade. 


     kerk hiraeth