Prose piece in which the narrator travels to the Holy Island of Iona to come to terms with his or her grief.
“The cycle of the year, or seasons, can easily be traced; but the universal spiral is indeed so vast, that mortals, seeing but a part,…
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..."
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.