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Death of Professor John Stuart Blackie and the hope of a Celtic revival

decorated page

Boxed in an ornate decorative frame with the four winds blowing from each corner is a central medallion showing a large sailing ship at sea, flying three flags. The medallion is surrounded by ornamental banners with the Latin motto: Firma Pererrat…

3 silhouetted doves, each with a spade-shaped leaf in its beak, fly upwards toward the top left corner

ARGUMENT.-Life is rhythmic and is punctuated by the seasons. The curve of life is undulatory; summer is the crest of the wave, winter the trough, spring and autumn the ascending and descending curves. No one note expresses autumn. It is a time of…

4 lyric quatrains: ababdeath and loss and departure, “But I’ll make a summer within my heart, /And Love, sweet Love, shall stay!”

10 quatrains, aabb

ARGUMENT.-I. How everyday experience dlfferentiates into the Arts and Sciences, yet how their progress is not only towards diversity, but towards Unity. II. How this Unity may come into our experience, and that from childhood. III. How cities may be…

7 triplets