The Galleon Treasure (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Galleon Treasure<br><br>If still, forsooth, some homely page<br>Of olden folk in homely style<br>May e'en in this progressive age<br>An idle hour or two beguile.<br><br>Why, here's a story of our land<br>And e'en a truthful episode,<br>Though wrought without a stylist's hand,<br>Nor written in the latest mode.<br><br>And still, methinks, though reft of art,<br>You'll see the lass with olden ways<br>Was much the same in thought and heart<br>As maids in these ungodly days.<br><br>And well I ken your lads of old<br>Would run away from book or game,<br>To do brave deeds, or hear them told -<br>And lads to-day are just the same.<br><br>And so fall to and fear ye not<br>The sombreness of olden phrase,<br>Nor look ye on their homely lot<br>But rather on their human ways.<br><br>For e'en though fickle custom kill<br>The homely ways, all prim and strange,<br>And fashions change, as fashions will,<br>The heart of youth will never change.<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.