Turn your gaze toward the skies

Where wyvern, lung, and phoenix fly.

As mermaids swim through oceans blue

Under Arctic ice, past coral hues.

Accounts arise from here and there,

Of manticores in hidden lairs,

And faeries dance ’round mushroom caps

As brownies steal your fabric scraps.

But beware the moon and mind the howls

For many hungry beasts doth prowl.

My dearest trav'lers, enjoy these pages

Filled with creatures throughout the ages

That wander ’cross the lands of lore

Where few have dared to venture forth.