Chasing The Rainbow.
" Surely few regret having chased when children across the wet and briary field after the end of the rainbow. Even after we learned the pot of gold was a myth, the inspiration of the chase far outweighed the disillusionment. Even the darker fictions but add colour to the memory. Few of us would take out of our memories the thrill and awe of the night we thought the world was coming to an end; the day we saw the first circus parade and thought the cages gold; the mysterious white form which we fancied hovered over the churchyard that dark night. If the colour of these fancies and folk stories still lingers after wisdom has come, we are the richer for it, provided that knowledge has brought the power to know the realfrom the imaginary. The use of grown-up wisdom is to teach which is fancy and which is substance. It is not meant to take away the colour of the mind or grind life down to nothing but material facts. Rather is it to carry over the wonder of fancy and more firmly attach it to the substances that endure …"
The Girls Annual, 1919.
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That's beautiful. It makes me long to give that sort of childhood to my little girl. Do you have the whole annual or did you just find that quote?
This is lovely. I'm always amazed how my 3 1/2 year old son remembers things that happened a year ago or more. His descriptions are practically poetic, but I wonder which of them will make it into the "permanent collection."
You always find the greatest pictures! WHERE do you get them????
Precious illustration.
Mari-Nanci