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  • Collection: The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal - Volume 2

In Shadowland, decorated page
sonnet: abbaabba cddc ee

Faith’s Avatar, decorated page
single 9-line stanza

Under a Purple Cloud, decorated page
10 quatrains, aabb

The Song of Life’s Fine Flower, decorated page
8-part song, each with a subhead, each containing 3 quatrains

Maya, decorated page
2 quatrains, rhyming abab

The Hill-Water, decorated page
irregular verse

The Breath of the Snow, decorated page
Narrator reflects on the weather; autumn and the coming of winter in Scotland; recounts neighbourhood gossip conveyed by his housekeeper Peggy ; [116] “That, you see, is the way a woman’s eye beholds the changes coming.”

Mary of the Gael, decorated page
Note: This 'legendary romance' is based upon the ancient and still current (though often hopelessly contradictory) legends concerning Brighid, or Bride, commonly known as ‘Muime Chriosd,' i.e. the Foster-Mother of Christ. From the universal honour…

Cobweb Hall, decorated page
A Berwickshire Folk-tale about a house that is shunned rather than haunted. Lived in by an eccentric single woman, Miss Clinscales, with an obsequious man servant. She is found dead one morning by maid, with her throat cut; a large amount of money is…
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