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

Fable

Song with voices of Bandruidh and various HIghland airs

Poem, quatrain in ABAB rhyme scheme

Man touched by the fairies sees only beauty

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.

quatrains abab

14 couplets

The advertisement combines letterpress in all capital letters, a decorative initial T, and a decorative tailpiece.