Heroines of History and Legend

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Excerpt from Heroines of History and Legend: Stories and Poems This book belongs to the romance of history, rather than to biography. In it are brought together stories, ballads and narrative poems which tell of the loyalty, patriotism, courage and self-sacrifice of girls and women in different ages and in many lands, from the time of the East Indian princess, Savitri, whose love was not conquered by death, to Edith Cavell, the English nurse, who gave her life in the great European war. Some of the stories are altogether true to fact, but not all that is here set forth will be found recorded in the sober pages of history. Traditional tales and mediæval legends have been included, and these, in the course of countless recitations, may have become altered and the actual events linked with the marvelous. Some of them have been embellished by the fancy and imagination of the poets and prose writers of a later age, for "men will sing for aye the deed one moment brings to birth." But even though all may not have happened exactly as related in story or verse, though there may be variations in details or in setting, these legendary tales are a part of the "high tradition of the world." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.