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An Evening in June
Janet Balfour, a cripple loves a man who loves another, and is disappointed in love
Gledha's Wooing
Ballad of proud Maisie & her elopement with family foe
The Land of Lorne and the Satirists of Taynuilt
Account of the Land of Lorne, the bards, the bands of satirists, and the lineage of Robbie Burns
The Anointed Man
Man touched by the fairies sees only beauty
The Bandruidh
Song with voices of Bandruidh and various HIghland airs
La Literature Nouvelle en France
The essay, in French, analyzes three characteristics of recent literature: the bankruptcy of pseudo-science; the bankruptcy of naturalism; and the renaissance of idealism.
Awakenings in History
Describes series of “awakenings” in Europe, caused by introduction of foreign ideas by Romans, Goths, Arabs
Spring in Languedoc
Spring comes less dramatically to Provence. Essay focuses on the appearance of the narcissus: with its scent comes “the Everlasting Past, a rustle of the Wind of Death." The essay references troubadours and love songs; quotes an Old French ballad.
The Return
Epigraph from Atalanta in Calydon; in winter “the merciless north wind scourged the land, and wrung from men’s hearts a confusion of cries and threatenings, which he caught up and carried abroad”; --crisis averted by arrival of Spring the Deliverer;…
The Crows: A Child Poem
Crows are figured as harbingers of spring