The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby (1915)
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875, Robinson, W. Heath (William Heath), 1872-1944, ill · Boston : Houghton Mifflin · leaf 196
slandcame strange flowers, which linger still about this land :the Cornish heath, and Cornish moneywort, and thedelicate Venuss hair, and the London-pride whichcovers the Kerry mountains, and the little pink butter-wort of Devon, and the great blue butterwort of Ireland,and the Connemara heath, and… … !C TO Till THE WATER BABIES stood all on pillars, and that its roots were full of caves.There were pillars of black basalt, like Staffa, andpillars of green and crimson serpentine, like Kynance ;and pillars ribboned with red and white and yellowsandstone, like Livermead ; and there were blue…
Fairy tales · Chimney sweeps
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