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- Collection: The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal - Volume 3
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Telen Rumengol [The Harp of Rumengol]
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.
The Kingdom of the Earth
Taken from The Washer of the Ford , by Fiona Macleod, aka William Sharp
The Dance of Life
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,…
“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,…
Night in Arran
story
Nannack
Kailyard fiction
Oceanus
2 nine-line stanzas: I. Dead Calm: Noon; II Dead Calm: Midnight;
Sun-Joy
6 quatrains abab
Summer-Night Sadness
5 8-line stanzas, ababcdcd
The Unborn
Dialogue between a child and his unborn brother
Song
Two short verses with epigraph: "he loves me - loves me not." The first verse asks "who would not love..." The second verse begins "who would not dream..."