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4 quatrains: good things in life = wine, women, friendship; but only thing to count on is friend

2 quatrains, rhyming abab

Poem celebrates the North Wind as the Spirit of Life and Liberty

irregular verse

2 nine-line stanzas: I. Dead Calm: Noon; II Dead Calm: Midnight;

Kailyard fiction

story of couple who go to live in a log cabin in the woods to observe spring; he’s an artist, like Nature: “First of its ornaments were the tiny creeping birds….”; quotes a Gaelic song about swans singing (trans in fn); Mark’s best picture is the fp…

“King René of Anjou, the laughter-loving Count of Provence, seeking to divert the melancholy of his beloved wife, Jeanne de Laval, turned the old-time-Keltic terror into gay new fetes: the games of the tarasque. These games are still played. The…

Author's Note: The following story, of which I here give a translation, is no doubt largely due to the vivid imagination of some itinerant mendicant working in his own interest.

translated from the original Dutch by the author