Nature, the gentlest mother,
Impatient of no child,
The feeblest or the waywardest,—
Her admonition mild
In forest and the hill
By traveller is heard,
Restraining rampant squirrel
Or too impetuous bird.
The youngest brother uses the fairies' gifts to ride up the mountain of glass and claim the Princess. Illustration by McAffee for Through Fairy Halls, 1920.
