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Pourquoi des Guirlandes Vertes à Noël
Tradition of evergreen garlands at Christmas
Sant Efflamm and King Arthur
Author's Note: This rendering of the Breton legend ‘Sant Efflamm hag ar Roue Arzur' is based on the ballad of that name given by the late Vicomte Hersart de 1a Villemarqu~ in the Barzaz-Breiz.—i.e., Ballads of Brittany (1839).
Symbols
quatrains abab
The Best of All
4 quatrains: good things in life = wine, women, friendship; but only thing to count on is friend
The Biology of Winter
ARGUMENT.-I. An appreciation of the full biological import of Winter is not altogether easy for us, here and now. We must think of peoples with less artificial environment, of more wintry regions, and of Glacial Epochs. II. The Sagas of the Biology…
The Black Month
Author's Note: In parts of Brittany it is the belief that on the Eve of All Souls, the Dead are permitted to return to the world; but that, being shapeless and voiceless, they enter into the bodies of the beggars who are called by the people the '…
The Chiefs' Blood in Me
3 stanzas, ababab
The Contents
The Table of Contents for the fourth volume of The Evergreen is organized into different sections. The text pieces are organized into the following fours sections: I. Winter in Nature; II. Winter in Life; III. Winter in the World; and IV. Winter in…
The Love-Kiss of Dermid and Grannie
Dermid and Grainne love each other despite desire of King Finn