Milly and Olly

Milly and Olly

After many years this little book is once more to see the light. The children for whom it was written are long since grown up. But perhaps the pleasure they once took in it may still be felt by some of the Millys and Ollys of to-day. Up in the dear mountain country which it describes, the becks are still sparkling; Brownholme still spreads its green steeps and ferny hollows under rain and sun; the tiny trout still leap in its tiny streams; and Fairfield, in its noble curve, still girdles the deep valley where these children played: the valley of Wordsworth and Arnoldthe valley where Arnolds poet-son rambled as a boywhere, for me, the shy and passionate ghost of Charlotte Bront still haunts the open door-way of Fox Howwhere poetry and generous life and ranging thought still dwell, and bring their benediction to the passers-by. Aunt Emma in her beautiful home, unchanged but for its vacant chairs, is now as she ever was, the friend of old and young; and the children of to-day still press to her side as their elders did before them. The parrot alas! is gone where parrots may; but amid the voices that breathe around Fox Howthe voices of seventy yearshis mimic speech is still remembered by the children who teased and loved him. For love, while love lasts, gives life to all things small and great; and in those who have once felt it, the love of the Fairfield valley, of the gray stone house that fronts the fells, and of them that dwell therein, is not Times fool Or bends with the remover to remove. Mary A. Ward. September 18, 1907. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 13337
Author: Ward, Humphry
Release Date: Aug 31, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Hallock, Ruth Mary, 1876-1945