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- Collection: The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal - Volume 1
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Arbor Saeculorum [Tree of History]
Image shows two sphinxes on either side of the Arbor Saeculorum, or the Tree of History. At the top of the tree on the left side is a Phoenix, and on the right is a butterfly. There are two scrolls on either side of the image. Each is divided into…
The Bandruidh
Song with voices of Bandruidh and various HIghland airs
Day and Night
Two verses of three lines each
The Crows: A Child Poem
Crows are figured as harbingers of spring
Old English Spring
Adapted from Harleian ms 2253, circa 1200. Lyric apostrophizing the Northwind
A Procession of Causes
The poem celebrates spring, renewal, love: “For the old god Pan hath taken a wife/ And the whole world shares their mirth..."
The Norland Wind
Poem celebrates the North Wind as the Spirit of Life and Liberty
Lengthening Days
story of couple who go to live in a log cabin in the woods to observe spring; he’s an artist, like Nature: “First of its ornaments were the tiny creeping birds….”; quotes a Gaelic song about swans singing (trans in fn); Mark’s best picture is the fp…
The Anointed Man
Man touched by the fairies sees only beauty