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Between the Ages
Seven 5-line stanzas ababa
Christmas Alms
Author's Note: The following story, of which I here give a translation, is no doubt largely due to the vivid imagination of some itinerant mendicant working in his own interest.
Frost
Kailyard fiction
Impressions of Winter
translated from the original Dutch by the author
Pourquoi des Guirlandes Vertes à Noël
Tradition of evergreen garlands at Christmas
Sant Efflamm and King Arthur
Author's Note: This rendering of the Breton legend ‘Sant Efflamm hag ar Roue Arzur' is based on the ballad of that name given by the late Vicomte Hersart de 1a Villemarqu~ in the Barzaz-Breiz.—i.e., Ballads of Brittany (1839).
Symbols
quatrains abab
The Love-Kiss of Dermid and Grannie
Dermid and Grainne love each other despite desire of King Finn
The Story of Castaille Dubh
tale of The Black Castle, Athole hills, in Scotland, during civil war. Earl of Athole loses possession, earldom bestowed upon an alien from the south, Sir Walter Stewart, who abuses the people; “With the New Year came one Uninvited…
Winter
Winter personifed: "His shoulder mighty as a mountain boulder”; “The kiss of his cold lip/Is good”