THE DRYAD
Reading edition
A Novel
BY JUSTIN HUNTLY McCARTHY
AUTHOR OF "THE LADY OF LOYALTY HOUSE" "THE PROUD PRINCE" "MARJORIE" ETC.
NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS :: MCMV
Copyright, 1905, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved. Published March, 1905.
ΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΦΙΛΗΝ ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΗΝ Most dear, most fair, these pages go To you, who watched this story grow Through days of sun and days of snow, A legend of the Long Ago. Where Wonder-Wood is all aglow With godlike forms, and far below The bland Athenian breezes blow, The faint Athenian fountains flow. Take up and read, and reading know How much to you these pages owe Since first we bandied to and fro Sweet fancies, swift to come and go.
J. H. McC.
IX. II. MCMV.