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King Gralon escapes to forest for refuge; at the Druid healing stone, he has a vision of Virgin; when he dies, Virgin promises to create “a race of singers” called “the nightingales of the Virgin." Story includes some Celtic (Breton) songs.

ARGUMENT.- Life is rhythmic and is punctuated by the seasons. Summer is the crest of the annual wave. I. It is the time of intensest life, when both output and income of energy reach their maximum. The activity of unconscious plant-life is crowned in…

The Table of Contents for the third volume of The Evergreen is organized by different sections. The text pieces are organized into the following four sections: I. Summer in Nature; II. Summer in Life; III. Summer in the World; IV. Summer in the…

Prose piece in which the narrator travels to the Holy Island of Iona to come to terms with his or her grief.
“The cycle of the year, or seasons, can easily be traced; but the universal spiral is indeed so vast, that mortals, seeing but a part,…

Taken from The Washer of the Ford , by Fiona Macleod, aka William Sharp

Argues for “an Evolutionist Education, in which the elemental lust of the flesh is disciplined into Love…”

Dialogue between a child and his unborn brother

seven 6-line stanzas, abcccb

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