THE LOST PRINCESS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 74, 28 March 1931, Page 18

THE LOST PRINCESS

Long years ago when the world was yet young, there lived a beautiful princess. Pritheo, but she was beautiful. Hair of spun gold, full of lights reaching down to hor, knees; eyas of deep, blue, like the sca,!now serene, now dark and restless, and lips so red that they rivalled: the crimson . sunset, and her ! skin was liko the roses themselves. ! She was gay and light-hearted, and' tho pooplo loved her, but tho king of tho nearby country wanted her for his bride, so ono day when the unsuspecting world lay drenched in the golden sunshine ho captured the princess beautiful. He carried her away to his castle and told tho angry people that she was quite happy and contented, but liko somo bereft of sun and rain, sho drooped. - Day by day she grew weaker and at last died-—a little broken-hearted fiowor. Only the gods themselves in tho blue heavens knew how she had longed, to be-out; wandering in tho meadows, singing with the birds, and plucking the flowers.So broken-hearted were tho peoplo that tho Goddess of Love sent to tho people a little blue flower (like the princess's eyes), which she called for-get-me-not. And every spring when the trees were a cloud of blossom, tho lanes starred with primroses and violets, and tho sun-drenched flowers swaying in the breeze, the people wero reminded of their lost princess. The little blue flower camo forth, and as the princess ' had been so. full Of love, lovers used I it as their flower. ' j "CAPTAIN PEGGY". (13). , Lyall Bay. \ , j