Sonnet XVII

Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers yellow'd with their age
Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched metre of an antique song:
   But were some child of yours alive that time,
   You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme.

-William Shakespeare.

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A Selection from The Albion Readers

"Sir Owain before the Countess", frontispiece

"He was knitting a woollen stocking"

From 'the Key-Flower'

"Boarding the Galleon"

"The princess Cicely finds Michael asleep in the garden"

"Drake's ship, 'the Golden Hind'"

"In the pool of London" from the picture entitled "Toil, Wealth, Glitter and Grime" by W. L. Wyllie B.A.

"In the distance the Titanic looked enormous"

"Round him crush the people. crying, 'Tell us all - O, tell us true!'"

"Beethoven playing to the blind girl"

"The boy-judge"

Un-Valentine's Day

{ S. R. S. ♥ B. R. D. }

For anyone who's simply in love, and needs no special day to celebrate it. ♥

Property of Margaret Ysobel Williams

A selection of 'vintage' fabrics, probably not that old but look the part, and French linguistic tapes that definitely are vintage...	See? Unfortunately I don't have the machine to play them, but that might come...
And an extra surprise...	'Gibson's Modern Method Spelling Book Part 6', 1934 (Sorry about the blur...)
How to Spell	This was between the pages of 'Cambridge Intermediate Mathematics', 1931
Magaret Ysobel Williams owned a few of the books in the pile... which one is she in the photo, if any?	Frontispiece of 'the Albion Readers', no date, but contemporary to the others
Scribbled in a book of arithmetic from 1915, and the name found practised in the margins is Neville Williams... brother of Margaret?	More art from Neville
Found between the pages of the arithmetic book, a test paper from 1942	A beautiful volume to introduce young children to literature, 1922
Frontispiece	An excerpt from Alice in Wonderland in the book
'The Universal Home Doctor', with dustjacket, no date but contemporary	Illustrations from the Home Doctor

Later on I'll do a post on each book; each one deserves individual attention especially for the illustrations, hand drawn or not... also if anyone actually knows of Margaret Ysobel Williams or her possible brother, please get in touch - I'm about to Google them myself :)