The Ship of Fools, Volume 1-2
THE SHIP OF FOOLS TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER BARCLAY [Illustration] VOLUME FIRST EDINBURGH: WILLIAM PATERSON LONDON: HENRY SOTHERAN & CO. MDCCCLXXIV. PREFATORY NOTE. It is necessary to explain that in the present edition of the Ship of Fools, with a view to both philological and bibliographical interests, the text, even to the punctuation, has been printed exactly as it stands in the
CHRISTMAS, 1917
A key no thief can steal, no time can rust;
A faery door, adventurous and golden;
A palace, perfect to our eyes--Ah must
Our eyes be holden?
Has the past died before this present sin?
Has this most cruel age already stoned
To martyrdom that magic Day, within
Those halls, enthroned?
No. Through the dancing of the young spring rain,
Through the faint summer, and the autumn's burning,
Our still immortal Day has heard again
Our steps returning.
THE SHIP OF FOOLS TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER BARCLAY [Illustration] VOLUME FIRST EDINBURGH: WILLIAM PATERSON LONDON: HENRY SOTHERAN & CO. MDCCCLXXIV. PREFATORY NOTE. It is necessary to explain that in the present edition of the Ship of Fools, with a view to both philological and bibliographical interests, the text, even to the punctuation, has been printed exactly as it stands in the