TRAVEL

like to rise and go golden apples grow ;how another sky

nds anchored lie,

ched by cockatoos and goats, usoes building boats;

sunshine reaching out

ities, miles about,

mosque and minaret

ndy gardens set,

ich goods from near and far sale in the bazaar;

e Great Wall round China goes,

ne side the desert blows,

bell and voice and drum,

the other hum;

Where in jungles near and far,
Man-devouring tigers are,
Lying close and giving ear
Lest the hunt be drawing near,
Or a comer-by be seen
Swinging in a palanquin ; —
Where among the desert sands
Some deserted city stands,

All its children, sweep and prince,
Grown to manhood ages since,
Not a foot in street or house,
Not a stir of child or mouse,
And when kindly falls the night,
In all the town no spark of light.
There I'll come when I'm a man,
With a camel caravan;

Light a fire in the gloom
Of some dusty dining room;
See the pictures on the walls,

ne became

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E age when ze in his childhood he had been where the Saxon nobles were in ng on pilgrimages, and once he had time in Paris. Learning, however, red for in those days that at twelve had not been taught to read, alhe favorite son of King Ethelwulf. - men who grew up to be great and n excellent mother. One day this me was Osburga, happened, as she ons, to read a book of Saxon poetry. ting was not known until long after ne book, which was written, was illueautiful, bright letters, richly painted.

admiring it very much, their mother ive it to that one of you who first

hey thought nothing of breaking oaths and es, too, as soon as it suited their purpose, and ning back again to fight, plunder, and burn. e fatal winter, in the fourth year of King I's reign, the Danes spread themselves in great ers over England. They so dispersed the soldiers, that Alfred was left alone, and wa d to disguise himself as a common peasant, and e refuge in the cottage of one of his cowherds id not know him.

e King Alfred, while the Danes sought him d near, was left alone one day by the cowherd' o watch some cakes which she put to bake upor arth. But the king was at work upon his bow rows, with which he hoped to punish the fals when a brighter time should come. He wa ng deeply, too, of his poor, unhappy subjects the Danes chased through the land. And s ble mind forgot the cakes, and they were burnt

be enchanted, for it had been woven Haughters of their king in a single d they had a story among themselves, y were victorious in battle, the raven his wings and seem to fly; and that re defeated, he would droop.

ortant to know how numerous the And and how they were fortified. ed, being a good musician, disguised instrel, and went with his harp to the

He played and sang in the very tent he Danish leader, and entertained the - feasted. While he seemed to think t his music, he was watchful of their ms, their discipline, - everything that know.

did this great king entertain them to