ENVOY
Reading edition
"Long—long is Time, though books be brief: Adventures strange—ay, past belief— Await the Reader's drowsy eye; But, wearied out, he'd lay them by. "But, if so be he'd some day hear All that befell these brothers dear In Tishnar's lovely Valleys—well, Poor pen, thou must that story tell! "But farewell, now, you Mulgars three! Farewell, your faithful company! Farewell, the heart that loved unbidden— Nod's dark-eyed, beauteous Water-midden!"