But she dies because of the wild wailing for her loss of the fairy-host, whom she can hear but cannot see, calling to her out of the darkened sky to come back to her home.

And in her sorrow and the battle in her between the love of Christ and of Faerie, she dies.

That is a symbol, not intended as such by its conceiver, but all the more significant, of the transition time.

Short as it is, few tales, perhaps, are more deeply charged with spiritual meaning.
[4] I speak here of the better known of the two versions of this encounter of the pagan with the Christian spirit.

There are others in which the reconciliation is carried still further.