The Flower Princess

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CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE LITTLE FRIEND I

THE MERMAID'S CHILD

THE TEN BLOWERS I

Title: The Flower Princess

The Flower Princess; The Little Friend; The Mermaid's Child; The Ten Blowers

Author: Abbie Farwell Brown

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/flowerprincess00brow

Endpapers

By Abbie Farwell Brown

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THE FLOWER PRINCESS. Illustrated. Sq. 12mo, $1.00.
THE CURIOUS BOOK OF BIRDS. Illustrated. Square 12mo, $1.10, net. Postpaid, $1.21.
A POCKETFUL OF POSIES. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.00, net. Postpaid, $1.09.
IN THE DAYS OF GIANTS. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.10, net. Postpaid, $1.21. School edition, 50 cents, net, postpaid.
THE BOOK OF SAINTS AND FRIENDLY BEASTS. Illustrated, 12mo, $1.25.
THE LONESOMEST DOLL. Illustrated. Sq. 12mo, 85 cents, net. Postpaid, 95 cents.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
Boston and New York

THE FLOWER PRINCESS



Title page


Oh, give me for a little space
To see with childlike eyes
This curious world, our dwelling-place
Of wonder and surprise. . . .

The long, long road from Day to Night
Winds on through constant change,
Whereon one hazards with delight
Adventures new and strange;

The wonders of the earth and sky!
The magic of the sea!
The mysteries of beast and fly,
Of bird and flower and tree!

One feels the breath of holy things
Unseen along the road,
The whispering of angel wings,
The neighboring of Good.

And Beauty must be good and true,
One battles for her sake;
But Wickedness is foul to view,
So one cannot mistake. . . .

Ah, give me with the childlike sight
The simple tongue and clear
Wherewith to read the vision right
Unto a childish ear.

Acknowledgments are due the publishers of The Churchman for permission to reprint "The Flower Princess" and "The Little Friend;" also to the Brown Book of Boston for permission to use "The Ten Blowers," which first appeared in that magazine.


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