This text was transcribed by Les Bowler
By
LAURA LEE DAVIDSON
“Now there is a rocky isle in the mid
sea, midwaybetween Ithaca
and rocky Samos, Asteris, a little isle.”The Odyssey of Homer. Translated by
S. S. Butcher and Andrew Lang
THE ABINGDON PRESS
NEWYORK CINCINNATI
p. 2Copyright,1922, by
LAURA LEE DAVIDSON
Printed inthe United States of America
p. 3To
LOUISE
The Lady of the Island
“Through patches ofSnow” | Frontispiece |
“Peter, the Rabbit, is TurningWhite Very Rapidly” | |
The House | |
A Point of One of theIslands | |
“The Heavy Woodsleds StillTravel Down the Lakes” | |
“The Drapeaus Live on a LongPeninsula to the West of This Island” |
A small, rocky island in a lake, acanoe paddling away across the blue water, a woman standing on anarrow strip of beach, looking after it. I was the womanleft on the shore, the canoe held my companions of the pastsummer, the island was to be my home until another summer shouldbring them back a