Crossword-Solution: ENVOI 5 letters, 68 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Clancy of the Mounted Police In the little Crimson Manual it's written plain and clear Lost "Black is the sky, but the land is white-- L'Envoi We talked of yesteryears, of trails and treasure, To the Man of the High North My rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming I've drifted, silver-sailed, on seas of dream, Hearing afar the bells of Elfland chiming, Seeing the groves of Arcadie agleam.

The sky is all forlorn, And there's the plain of battle writhing red: God pity them, the women-folk who mourn! How happy are the dead! L'Envoi My job is done; my rhymes are ranked and ready, My word-battalions marching verse by verse; Here stanza-companies are none too steady; There print-platoons are weak, but might be worse.

Past, indeed, are the unruffled days when a heroine was expected (after the action of a play had ended) to deliver the closing _envoi_ dear to the writers of Queen Anne’s day.

Villon, in a remarkably bad ballad, written in a breath, heartily thanked and fulsomely belauded the Parliament; the _envoi_, like the proverbial postscript of a lady’s letter, containing the pith of his performance in a request for three days’ delay to settle his affairs and bid his friends farewell.

THE LILY OF THE VALLEY ENVOI Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes.