Front matter
Reading edition
The Land of
Afternoon
A SATIRE
BY
Gilbert Knox
OTTAWA
THE GRAPHIC PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1924
By Gilbert Knox
PRINTED IN THE DOMINION OF CANADA
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Land of Afternoon
By GILBERT KNOX
PART ONETHEY CAME.
PART TWOTHEY SAW.
PART THREETHEY CONQUERED.
“Courage,” he said, and pointed to the land.
“This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon,”
In the afternoon they came unto a land
In which it seemed always afternoon.
—The Lotus Eaters