What the Moon Saw

"A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old.      The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the cause of war in"

"I. The Lion          The Lion is a kingly beast.          He likes a Hindu for a feast.          And if no Hindu he can get,"

"I was but a half-grown boy,         You were a girl-child slight.         Ah, how weary you were!         You had led in the bullock-fight"

"Sometimes I dip my pen and find the bottle full of fire,          The salamanders flying forth I cannot but admire.          It's Etna, or"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"