Crossword-Solution: DRYADES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Here be, without duck or nod, Other trippings to be trod Of lighter toes, and such court guise As Mercury did first devise With the mincing Dryades On the lawns and on the leas.

Then, through those translucencies, As grew my senses clearer clear, Did I see, and did I hear, How under an elm’s canopy Wheeled a flight of Dryades Murmuring measured melody.

Spir: Back Shepherds, back, anough your play, Till next Sun-shine holiday, Here be without duck or nod 960 Other trippings to be trod Of lighter toes, and such Court guise As Mercury did first devise With the mincing Dryades On the Lawns, and on the Leas.

Dodona, site of an oracle of Zeus (Jupiter) Dorceus, a dog of Diana Doris, wife of Nereus Dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus Druids, ancient Celtic priests Dryades (or Dryads), See Wood nymphs Dryope, changed to a lotus plant, for plucking a lotus--enchanted form of the nymph Lotis Dubricius, bishop of Caerleon.

Like a wounded bird Easily caught, ensnare him, O ye Nymphs, Ye Oreads chaste, ye dusky Dryades! And you, ye Earth-winds! you that make at morn The dew-drops quiver on the spiders' webs! You, O ye wingless Airs! that creep between The rigid stems of heath and bitten furze, Within whose scanty shade, at summer-noon, The mother-sheep hath worn a hollow bed-- Ye, that now cool her fleece with dropless damp, Now pant and murmur with her feeding lamb.