Blow trumpet, for the world is white with May;
Blow trumpet, the long night hath roll'd away!
Blow thro' the living world--"Let the King reign."
"Shall Rome or Heathen rule in Arthur's realm?
Flash brand and lance, fall battleaxe upon helm,
Fall battleaxe, and flash brand! Let the King reign."
Tennyson.
Ruskin, John.
The King of the Golden River.
Heath. .20
An exquisite legend, beautiful in spirit and language.
There have been written in our English language a few tales bearing a rich moral lesson that are an unfailing source of delight, alike to childhood and to youth, and that are at the same time not without interest to the adult. The King of the Golden River is one of these.... Its lessons are not obtruded; the reader is really not explicitly conscious of them at all.--Introduction.
Stockton, F.R.
Fanciful Tales.
Scribner. .50