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@books_forgotten "Le Joyeux Livre des Clowns", Gautier-Langerau Paris, copyright Wonder Books 1955. Illustrated by James Schucker.
We are the music makers
We are the dreamers of dreams
Wandering by lone sea-breakers
Sitting by desolate streams
World-losers and world-forsakers
On whom the pale moon gleams
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems
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Arthur O'Shaughnessy
Married in...
grey, you'll go far away
black, you'll wish yourself back
blue, you'll always be true
yellow, ashamed of the fellow
pink, your spirits'll sink
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1914 #illustration by Elsa Beskow
"What plant we with this apple tree?
Sweets for a hundred flowery Springs
To load the May-wind's restless wings,
When, from the orchard-row, he pours
Its fragrance through our open doors;
A world of blossoms for the bee..."
W Cullen Bryant
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🎨 Alice Helena Watson
"When the open fire is lit
In the evening after tea
Then I like to come and sit
Where the fire can talk to me
Fairy stories it can tell
Tales of a forgotten race
of the fairy ghosts that dwell
In the ancient chimney place"
F Sherman
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#illustration Hilda Boswell
"The Arabian Nights", Ward Lock & Co. Ltd., undated, c.1920
#illustration by A. E. Jackson
#FairyTaleTuesday
"But I don’t want to go among mad people" Alice remarked
"Oh, you can’t help that" said the Cat "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad"
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice
"You must be" said the Cat "or you wouldn’t have come here"
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#illustration Tove Jansson
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from "The Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam"
#illustration by Rene Bull (1872-1942, Irish-born, of English/French parents)