Re-issue of the Shorter
Stories of Fiona Macleod
rearranged, with
additional
tales
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Volume one
Spiritual Tales
BY
Fiona Macleod
PATRICK GEDDES & COLLEAGUES
THE OUTLOOK TOWER·CASTLEHILL·EDINBURGH
To LILAVAN
... For I have seen
In lonely places, and in lonelier hours,
Beyond the involving veils of day and night
Circumfluent o’er the shadowy drift of years,
My vision of the rainbow-aureoled face
Of her whom men name Beauty: proud, austere,
Inviolate, immortal, undismayed
By the swift-eddying dust of wandering Time—
Dim vision of the flawless, perfect Face,
Divinely fugitive, that haunts the world
And lifts man’s spiral thought to lovelier dreams.