The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, January 1883 / A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. / Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle

by Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle; Chautauqua Institution

Gold beads for my hair.—

Thence he sent with a message, my mother,

With a message the moon in the night,

That I was to be his stepmother:

Then I sent to him in reply

The sun, for I said that he should

Go wed whomsoever he would.

With the leaf of the hazel-nut tree

He sent his answer to me,

That I should his stepmother be;