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- Collection: The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal - Volume 1
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The Crows: A Child Poem
Crows are figured as harbingers of spring
Day and Night
Two verses of three lines each
The Bandruidh
Song with voices of Bandruidh and various HIghland airs
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…
Almanac
decorated page
Awakenings in History
Describes series of “awakenings” in Europe, caused by introduction of foreign ideas by Romans, Goths, Arabs
The Scots Renascence
Death of Professor John Stuart Blackie and the hope of a Celtic revival
Life and its Science
Biology is first and foremost the study of life, not death; “let us return to…the simple and the natural, the normal and the organic”; “experimental evolution”/”regeneration” is the “Alchemy of Life”—expands to make a social/political point by…
Proem
An essay taking Spring as its theme, celebrating variation and unity: the most harmonious lives in tune with seasonal rhythms of earth—times of effort and rest: “That is the ultimate system in which we live…”; “So, at this time, the voice of Spring…
Germinal, Floreal, Prairial
These were names given to the Spring months at a famous time some hundred years ago, when men in the April folly of their hearts dreamed that they could make all things new.” References myth, fairy tale, legend symbolic of spring, including Pan; “in…