Castle-Builder

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3><SPAN name="chap256"></SPAN>THE CASTLE-BUILDER</h3> <p> A gentle boy, with soft and silken locks<br/> A dreamy boy, with brown and tender eyes,<br/> A castle-builder, with his wooden blocks,<br/> And towers that touch imaginary skies.<br/></p> <p> A fearless rider on his father's knee,<br/> An eager listener unto stories told<br/> At the Round Table of the nursery,<br/> Of heroes and adventures manifold.<br/></p> <p> There will be other towers for thee to build;<br/> There will be other steeds for thee to ride;<br/> There will be other legends, and all filled<br/> With greater marvels and more glorified.<br/></p> <p> Build on, and make thy castles high and fair,<br/> Rising and reaching upward to the skies;<br/> Listen to voices in the upper air,<br/> Nor lose thy simple faith in mysteries.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />