The Chivalry of Keith Leicester a Romance of British Columbia (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Chivalry of Keith Leicester a Romance of British Columbia Fair Tempe's groves 'neath Grecian skies With shout and song re-echo still, And dancing nymphs and fauns surprise By rocky grot and foaming rill, While Pan's illusive pipings fill The leafy lanes - jocund appear His whole bright frolic crew at will - To such as have the vision clear. Birthplace of chivalrous emprise, Fair France, thy war-scarred terrain still Is quaintly thronged to seeing eyes, And such may yet descry at will Some Roland richly armed fulfil His devoir or some Chandos, dear To story, hold the lists with skill - If one but have the vision clear. To mortals blest with seeing eyes, The fairies walk in Arden still, The magic light of Elfland lies On grassy glades, on dale and hill, While Philomel's sweet love-notes fill The leafy bowers where gay appear Titania's court in costume chill - To such as have the vision clear. Far out beneath these Western skies, We, too, may conjure up at will, These sylph-like forms - perchance surprise Some naiad mirrored in the rill, Or through the pine-trees, sweet but shrill Pan's plaintive pipes enchanted hear - E'en fairies dance and roundels trill - For such as have the vision clear. Envoy Reader, herein a truth there lies That will to you, at once, appear, For you are blest with seeing eyes - We know you have the vision clear. 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.