Town, with
its towers
and
battlements
and spires
all
smiling in
the sun,
they came
at last
out of the
forest
lands.
Onward
they
journeyed,
through
highway
and byway,
through
villages
where good
wives and
merry
lasses
peeped
through
the
casements
at the
fine show
of young
men, until
at last
they came
over
beyond
Alverton
in
Derbyshire.
By this
time high
noontide
had come,
yet they
had met no
guest such
as was
worth
their
