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Published September 1905

To the Mermaid of the Pink Grotto

Thanks are due to the publishers of The Churchman for permission to reprint “The Star Jewels,” “The Balloon Boy,” “Trees,” and “Child or Fairy;” to The Interior for “Karl and the Dryad;” and to The Congregationalist for “The Green Cap.”

“Why nature loves the number five, And why the star-form she repeats.”