Lud-in-the-Mist

Name: Lud-in-the-Mist
Author: Mirrlees, Hope

Mirrlees, Hope

Fairies -- Fiction; Fantasy fiction; Imaginary places -- Fiction

PRESIDENT OF THE GUILD OF MERCHANTS
                 THREE TIMES MAYOR OF LUD-IN-THE-MIST
                 TO WHOM WAS GRANTED NO SMALL SHARE OF
                       THE PEACE AND PROSPERITY
                        HE HELPED TO BESTOW ON
                         HIS TOWN AND COUNTRY.

An epitaph not unlike those he used to con so wistfully in his visits
to the Fields of Grammary.

And this is but another proof that the Written Word is a Fairy, as
mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a
feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning! And with this
final exhortation this book shall close.

                               Columbine

    "And can the physician make sick men well,
    And can the magician a fortune divine
    Without lily, germander, and sops in wine?
    With sweet-brier,
    And bon-fire,
    And strawberry-wire,
    And columbine.

    "Within and out, in and out, round as a ball,
    With hither and thither, as straight as a line,
    With lily, germander, and sops in wine.
    With sweet-brier
    And bon-fire
    And strawberry-wire
    And columbine.

    "Any lass for a Duke, a Duke who wears green,
    In lands where the sun and the moon do not shine,
    With lily, germander, and sops in wine.
    With sweet-brier
    And bon-fire
    And strawberry-wire
    And columbine."

    "When Aubrey did live there lived no poor,
    The lord and the beggar on roots did dine
    With lily, germander, and sops in wine.
    With sweet-brier
    And bon-fire,
    And strawberry-wire,
    And columbine."

    "There are windfalls of dreams, there's a wolf in the stars,
    And Life is a nymph who will never be thine,
    With lily, germander, and sops in wine.
    With sweet-brier,
    And bon-fire,
    And strawberry-wire,
    And columbine."

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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Lud-in-the-MistMirrlees, Hope

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Lud-in-the-Mist

Mirrlees, Hope

Fairies -- Fiction; Fantasy fiction; Imaginary places -- Fiction

PRESIDENT OF THE GUILD OF MERCHANTS
                 THREE TIMES MAYOR OF LUD-IN-THE-MIST
                 TO WHOM WAS GRANTED NO SMALL SHARE OF
                       THE PEACE AND PROSPERITY
                        HE HELPED TO BESTOW ON
                         HIS TOWN AND COUNTRY.

An epitaph not unlike those he used to con so wistfully in his visits
to the Fields of Grammary.

And this is but another proof that the Written Word is a Fairy, as
mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a
feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning! And with this
final exhortation this book shall close.

                               Columbine

    "And can the physician make sick men well,
    And can the magician a fortune divine
    Without lily, germander, and sops in wine?
    With sweet-brier,
    And bon-fire,
    And strawberry-wire,
    And columbine.

    "Within and out, in and out, round as a ball,
    With hither and thither, as straight as a line,
    With lily, germander, and sops in wine.
    With sweet-brier
    And bon-fire
    And strawberry-wire
    And columbine.

    "Any lass for a Duke, a Duke who wears green,
    In lands where the sun and the moon do not shine,
    With lily, germander, and sops in wine.
    With sweet-brier
    And bon-fire
    And strawberry-wire
    And columbine."

    "When Aubrey did live there lived no poor,
    The lord and the beggar on roots did dine
    With lily, germander, and sops in wine.
    With sweet-brier
    And bon-fire,
    And strawberry-wire,
    And columbine."

    "There are windfalls of dreams, there's a wolf in the stars,
    And Life is a nymph who will never be thine,
    With lily, germander, and sops in wine.
    With sweet-brier,
    And bon-fire,
    And strawberry-wire,
    And columbine."

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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