Nymphs, Nixies and Naiads

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Excerpt from Nymphs, Nixies and Naiads: Legends of the RhineE sprites and elves with which Germania's shore Was thickly peopled in the days of yore, Ye brownies, fairies, kobolds grim and gray, And water-nymphs, disporting night and day, (some in a host, and answer to my call. Though unbelief has driven away you all To hide in rocky caverns, sea, and cloud, So that you dare not laugh or speak aloud As in those merry days the World was young, And people smiled and jested, laughed and sung, Without these groanings of the inner sense, These metaphysical discussions dense, O'erawing, puzzling, darkening our life, And making it with such vexed questions rife As in these latter days attack our brains. Ah then it was enough to live. The rains Of heaven were sweet, the sunshine passing fair, 13.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.