Nu ska jag göra något fult och besvara mig själv. Jag fick ett e-mail från S. T. Joshi idag där han upplyste mig om den korrekta ordalydelsen (Joshi är en av världens ledande Dunsany-experter och har själv ett ex av den första amerikanska upplagan av
The King of Elfland's Daughter). Den korrekta texten kommer här, ifall det är någon som har ett ex med tryckfelet i:
Lord Dunsany skrev:
He tried to see through the barrier, but saw
nothing but wandering lights that were made by the mass-
ing of twilights from the ending of thousands of days,
which had been preserved by magic to build that barrier
there. Then he called to his mother across that mighty gap,
those few paces of airy twilight lying over the fields, which had
upon one side Earth and the haunts of men, and
the time that we measure by minutes and hours and years,
and upon the other Elfland and another way of time.