The Girl Philippa

by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers · language: en

*The** GIRL PHILIPPA* BY *ROBERT W. CHAMBERS* ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK CRAIG D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON 1919 COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS 1915, 1916, BY THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY Printed in the United States of America TO MY SON BOBBY *BOB AT SIXTEEN* You can tell a better tale than I; Trap and wing you shoot a better score; You can cast a surer, lighter fly, Catch as can, you'd put me on the floor; Should I hoist a sail beneath the sky Yours the race, away and back to shore.

You have mastered all my woodland lore, In the saddle you can give me spades; You have slain your first and mighty boar In the classic Croyden Forest shades; You have heard the Northern rivers roar, You have seen the Southern Everglades.

You have creeled your Highland yellow trout Where the Scottish moorlands call us back; You have left me puzzled and in doubt Over tropic specimens I lack-- Sphinxes that I know not, huge and stout; Butterflies, un-named, in blue and black.

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