The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 218
A plank their ship, a sheet their sail, the happy tree their mast,These bold explorers northward turned, and sailedaway so fastThat soon oer unknown lands there wavedThe banner of the free.The staff that proudly bore itWas the little Christmas tree. … What afterward befell it would take me long to tell:It once became a fairy wood, where elves and dryads dwell;And once a prancing, coal-black steed, With a noble knight astride;And once a dark and gloomy caveWhere bears and lions hide.
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