AUTHOR OF "THE BROWN OWL"
"SHIFTING OF THE FIRE," ETC.

With a Frontispiece by
SIR E. BURNE JONES

AND

Border Design by
C. R. B. BARRETT

LONDON
BLISS, SANDS & FOSTER
CRAVEN STREET, STRAND, W.C.
1894

TO

A PRINCESS OF THE OLD TIME
BEFORE US

THIS TALE

IS DUE AND DEDICATED.

Over the leas the Princess came,

On the sward of the cliffs that breast the sea,

With her cheeks aglow and her hair aflame,

That snared the eyes and blinded them,

And now is but a memory.

Over the leas, the wind-tossed dream,

Over the leas above the sea,

Passed and went to reign supreme.

—No need of a crown or diadem

In the kingdom of misty Memory.