The Golden Road

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There is night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath.
—George Borrow.

Good-night, dear Jean François, said she with gaiety.
May your dreams be of your beloved roads of Picardy. She threw him an elfish kiss from her finger-tips and hastened into her airy improvised bedroom.
NEW YORK WESSELS & BISSELL CO. 1910 Copyright, 1910, by Wessels & Bissell Co. October ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL All rights reserved PREMIER PRESS NEW YORK



'T was Pan himself had wandered here, A-strolling through the sordid city, And piping to the civic ear The prelude of some pastoral ditty! The demigod had crossed the seas— From haunts of shepherd, nymph, and satyr, And Syracusan times—to these Far shores....
— Edmund Clarence Stedman.