To win the hand of the princess
What tasks the youngest son
Had to perform!

For me, the first to come a-courting
In the fish factor's house,
It was to eat with them

An eel supper.

– Seamus Heaney #BookologyThursday

For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands."

Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market
#BookologyThursday