Illustrated by Isabel W. Caley
[Illustration: "IT WAS NO ORDINARY DOG"]
[Illustration]
The Penn Publishing
Company Philadelphia
1919
Copyright 1919 by The Penn Publishing Company
[Illustration]
The Story of Porcelain
_To_
_Margaret Huxley_
_this book is affectionately inscribed_
THE BOWL
Some master-craftsman, maker of porcelains, to the Emperor,
the Son of Heaven,
Having attained the paradise of artists, who mould in life and fire,
Fashioned this day:
A bowl blue as the iris within the sacred gardens,
Based with a low design of brown bare hills,
A pine or two new-tipped with tender needles,
With oak buds, pink and saffron,
And birds red, brown, and blue.
Into this bowl, exquisite and perishable,
The Patron of all artists heaps light and more light;
Then holding high the brimming chalice, quaffs,
And folds it in his altar-cloth of stars.
Carl H. Grabo. (_From the Nation_.)
Contents
I. Into the Woods
II. Mr. Croyden Keeps His Promise
III. Theo Meets with a Calamity
IV. Mr. Croyden's Story
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