Do
you seek the road to Fairyland
I'll
tell; it's easy, quite.
Wait
till a yellow moon gets up
O'er
purple seas by night,
And
gilds a shining pathway
That
is sparkling diamond bright
Then,
if no evil power be nigh
To
thwart you, out of spite,
And
if you know the very words
To
cast a spell of might,
You
get upon a thistledown,
And,
if the breeze is right,
You
sail away to Fairyland
Along
this track of light.
Seton, Ernest Thompson
(1860-1946)
Seton,
Ernest Thompson (1860-1946), Canadian writer and illustrator, born in
South
Shields, Durham, England. Seton immigrated to Canada with his family
in
1866, and in his youth, he lived in remote parts of western Canada and
the
United
States. He studied art at the Royal Academy, London, and in Paris.
Writing
and drawing at first under his original name of Ernest Seton Thompson
and
later as Ernest Thompson Seton, he became noted for his illustrated books
of
nature stories. These books include Wild Animals I Have Known (1898) and
Biography
of an Arctic Fox (1937). In 1902 Seton founded in the United States
the
Woodcraft Indians, an organization of boys. Some of its principles were
later
adopted
by the Boy Scouts, founded in 1908 in England. Seton was a leader of
the
Boy Scout movement in America from its inception in 1910 until 1915, when
he
resigned and founded the Woodcraft League of America, similar to his original
Woodcraft Indians. In 1930 Seton moved from Canada to New Mexico, where
he
spent the remainder of his life.
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