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Title: Queen Summer
or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose

Author: Walter Crane

Release Date: January 28, 2008 [EBook #24449]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration]

Queen Summer

or
The Tourney
of the
Lily
&
the Rose

Walter Crane

Cassell & Co
Ld:

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Queen Summer
or the Tourney
of the Lily & the Rose
penned & portrayed
by Walter Crane

Cassell & Co: Ld: London: Paris: & Melbourne

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[Illustration]

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When Summer on the earth was queen
She held her court in gardens green
Fair hung with tapestry of leaves,
Where threads of gold the sun enweaves
With checquered patterns on the floor
Of velvet lawns the scythe smoothes o'er:
Their waving fans the soft winds spread
Each way to cool Queen Summer's head:
The woodland dove made music soft,
And Eros touched his lute full oft.

Round Time's dial thronged the hours,
Masking in the Masque of Flowers

Like knights and ladies fair be-dight
In silk attire, both red and white.

And as the winds about them played,
And shook the flowers or disarrayed,