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Title: Days of the Discoverers

Author: L. Lamprey

Illustrator: Florence Choate
Elizabeth Curtis

Release Date: March 23, 2006 [EBook #18038]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "'I will tell you where there is plenty of
it'"--_Frontispiece_]

_GREAT DAYS IN AMERICAN HISTORY SERIES_

DAYS OF THE DISCOVERERS

BY

L. LAMPREY

_Author of "In the Days of the Guild",
"Masters of the Guild", etc._

ILLUSTRATED BY

FLORENCE CHOATE and ELIZABETH CURTIS

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1921, by_

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of translation
into foreign languages_

_Made in the United States of America_

TO FORESTA

Upon the road to Faerie,
O there are many sights to see,--
Small woodland folk may one discern
Housekeeping under leaf and fern,
And little tunnels in the grass
Where caravans of goblins pass,
And airy corsair-craft that float
On wings transparent as a mote,--
All sorts of curious things can be
Upon the road to Faerie!

Along the wharves of Faerie--
There all the winds of Christendie
Are musical with hawk-bell chimes,
Carillons rung to minstrels' rimes,
And silver trumpets bravely blown
From argosies of lands unknown,
And the great war-drum's wakening roll--
The reveille of heart and soul--
For news of all the ageless sea
Comes to the quays of Faerie!

Across the fields to Faerie
There is no lack of company,--
The world is real, the world is wide,
But there be many things beside.
Who once has known that crystal spring
Shall not lose heart for anything.
The blessing of a faery wife
Is love to sweeten all your life.
To find the truth whatever it be--
That is the luck of Faerie!

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