THE
Romance of the Moon

BY
J. A. MITCHELL



New York
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1886


Copyright, 1886,
BY
HENRY HOLT & CO.

PREFACE

SCIENCE is very good in its own way, but we observe a wide-spread andlamentable ignorance concerning all that pertains to the romantic sideof our earth’s history. It is to dispel this ignorance that thefollowing facts are made public.

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I.

One summer’s night, about a million years ago, it happened that the Moonwas pensive.{2}

II.

It also happened that the Earth was floating leisurely about in space asif he thought himself a thing of beauty. But she affected not to seehim.{3}

III.

Old Saturn did, however, and understood it all. For æons he had lovedthis Moon, but she had chilled him to the marrow whenever heapproached.{4}

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