Excerpt from Love for an Hour Is Love Forever "Who Rides By With Royal Air?" "Who rides by with royal air?" "Though fate may frown, and death may sever, Love for an hour is love forever." Between the leaves of an old romance I found one day the shadow of a lily and a song. The lily grew forty years ago, the song was sung as it was gathered. The flower is nearly dust, the words have nearly faded away, but the story they keep is unforgotten. For in becoming "Life" it made itself eternal. Before the flower bloomed, before the song had found a voice, Francesca Atherton had dreamed of love, as saints dream of heaven - wonderful, mystical, far off - an object both of fervent desire and of wistful fear and uncertainty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.