Crossword-Solution: OUPHES 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

And the light of my eyes shall be your guide, The light of my eyes and my snow-white hand-- And there forever we two will abide." THERE ARE FAERIES I There are faeries, bright of eye, Who the wildflowers' warders are: Ouphes, that chase the firefly; Elves, that ride the shooting-star: Fays, who in a cobweb lie, Swinging on a moonbeam bar; Or who harness bumblebees, Grumbling on the clover leas, To a blossom or a breeze-- That's their faery car.

Elves that swing In a wild and rainbow ring Through the air; or mount the wing Of a bat to courier news To the faery King and Queen: Fays, who stretch the gossamers On which twilight hangs the dews; Who, within the moonlight sheen, Whisper dimly in the ears Of the flowers words so sweet That their hearts are turned to musk And to honey; things that beat In their veins of gold and blue: Ouphes, that shepherd moths of dusk-- Soft of wing and gray of hue-- Forth to pasture on the dew.

Warburton corrects _orphan_ to _ouphen_; and not without plausibility, as the word _ouphes_ occurs both before and afterward.

Page speaks of “urchins, ouphes, and fairies”—urchin having been an appellation for one class of fairies.

Page, after conferring with her husband, suggests that— “Nan Page my daughter, and my little son, And three or four more of their growth, we’ll dress Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies, green and white, With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads, And rattles in their hands” it is evident that in Shakespeare’s day fairies were supposed to be of the size of children.