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- Collection: The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal - Volume 1
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A Procession of Causes
The poem celebrates spring, renewal, love: “For the old god Pan hath taken a wife/ And the whole world shares their mirth..."
Almanac
decorated page
An Evening in June
Janet Balfour, a cripple loves a man who loves another, and is disappointed in love
Arbor Saeculorum [Tree of History]
Image shows two sphinxes on either side of the Arbor Saeculorum, or the Tree of History. At the top of the tree on the left side is a Phoenix, and on the right is a butterfly. There are two scrolls on either side of the image. Each is divided into…
Awakenings in History
Describes series of “awakenings” in Europe, caused by introduction of foreign ideas by Romans, Goths, Arabs
Day and Night
Two verses of three lines each
Decorated page
3 silhouetted doves, each with a spade-shaped leaf in its beak, fly upwards toward the top left corner
From Four Easter Letters
1. from Athens, circa 357 BC ; 2 from Norway, circa 145 BC, written by a woman; 3. from Jerusalem, 8th year of governance of Pontius Pilate; 4. Edinburgh, Easter 1887--all about the coming of spring
Germinal, Floreal, Prairial
These were names given to the Spring months at a famous time some hundred years ago, when men in the April folly of their hearts dreamed that they could make all things new.” References myth, fairy tale, legend symbolic of spring, including Pan; “in…
Gledha's Wooing
Ballad of proud Maisie & her elopement with family foe