Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Wellesley Prelude, Vol. 2: May 2, 1891
Once, long ago, in a tiny cottage, in the heart of a grey-green forest, a little girl opened her eyes upon the world. It was a happy world that she looked out upon, for it was May-day. The sky was blue, the sunshine golden, and the air full of bird-music.
A tall oak stood beside the little cottage. It saw the tiny maiden, and it spread the news of her birth, throughout the forest. She. Is wonderfully beautiful, it said, as fair as the bright May-day itself, for her eyes are like bits of its sky, her hair like the sheen of its sunshine, and her voice sweeter than the song of its birds.
Then the other trees of the forest, and the Vines that twined about them, and the violets 011 the moss below, marvelled greatly, and longed them selves to see the tiny, May-born mortal, and they said She that is born among us, more beautiful than the morning, shall be called the child of the forest.
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