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seven 6-line stanzas, abcccb

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

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5 8-line stanzas, ababcdcd

5 8-line stanzas, ababcdcd

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.

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..."

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

6 quatrains abab