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- Collection: The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal - Volume 1
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The Scots Renascence
Death of Professor John Stuart Blackie and the hope of a Celtic revival
The Return
Epigraph from Atalanta in Calydon; in winter “the merciless north wind scourged the land, and wrung from men’s hearts a confusion of cries and threatenings, which he caught up and carried abroad”; --crisis averted by arrival of Spring the Deliverer;…
The Norland Wind
Poem celebrates the North Wind as the Spirit of Life and Liberty
The Land of Lorne and the Satirists of Taynuilt
Account of the Land of Lorne, the bards, the bands of satirists, and the lineage of Robbie Burns
The Crows: A Child Poem
Crows are figured as harbingers of spring
The Bandruidh
Song with voices of Bandruidh and various HIghland airs
The Anointed Man
Man touched by the fairies sees only beauty
Spring in Languedoc
Spring comes less dramatically to Provence. Essay focuses on the appearance of the narcissus: with its scent comes “the Everlasting Past, a rustle of the Wind of Death." The essay references troubadours and love songs; quotes an Old French ballad.
Proem
An essay taking Spring as its theme, celebrating variation and unity: the most harmonious lives in tune with seasonal rhythms of earth—times of effort and rest: “That is the ultimate system in which we live…”; “So, at this time, the voice of Spring…
printer's colophon
Boxed in an ornate decorative frame with the four winds blowing from each corner is a central medallion showing a large sailing ship at sea, flying three flags. The medallion is surrounded by ornamental banners with the Latin motto: Firma Pererrat…