Tales of the Mermaid Tavern (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Tales of the Mermaid Tavern<br><br>Tales Of The Mermaid Tavern.<br><br>A Knight Of The Ocean-Sea.<br><br>Under that foggy sunset London glowed<br>Like one huge cob-webbed flagon of old wine.<br>And, as I walked down Fleet Street, the soft sky<br>Flowed thro' the roaring thoroughfares, transfused<br>Their hard sharp outlines, blurred the throngs of black<br>On either pavement, blurred the rolling stream<br>Of red and yellow busses, till the town<br>Turned to a golden suburb of the clouds.<br>And, round that mighty bubble of St Paul's,<br>Over the up-turned faces of the street,<br>An air-ship slowly sailed, with whirring fans,<br>A voyager in the new-found realms of gold,<br>A shadowy silken chrysalis whence should break<br>What radiant wings in centuries to be.<br><br>So, wandering on, while all the shores of Time<br>Softened into Eternity, it seemed<br>A dead man touched me with his living hand,<br>A flaming legend passed me in the streets<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.