Then becometh it kin to the faun and the dryad, a woodland-dweller amid the rocks and streams
"consociis faunis dryadisque inter saxa sylvarum."
Janus of Basel.[1]
Also has Mr. Yeats in his "Celtic Twilight" treated of such, and I because in such a mood, feeling myself divided between myself corporal and a self aetherial "a dweller by streams and in woodland," eternal because simple in elements
" Aeternus quia simplex naturae."
Being freed of the weight of a soul "capable of salvation or damnation," a grievous striving thing that after much straining was mercifully taken from me; as had one passed saying as one in the Book of the Dead,
"I, lo I, am the assembler of souls," and had taken it with him leaving me thus simplex naturae, even so at peace and transsentient as a wood pool I made it.
The Legend thus: "Miraut de Garzelas, after the pains he bore a-loving Riels of Calidorn and that to none avail, ran mad in the forest.
"Yea even as Peire Vidal ran as a wolf for her of Penautier though some say that twas folly or as Garulf Bisclavret so ran truly, till the King brought him respite (See 'Lais' Marie de France), so was he ever by the Ash Tree."
Hear ye his speaking: (low, slowly he speaketh it, as one drawn apart, reflecting) (égaré).
[1] Referendum for contrast. "Daemonalitas" of the Rev. Father Sinistrari of Ameno (1600 circ.) "A treatise wherein is shown that there are in existence on earth rational creatures besides man, endowed like him with a body and soul, that are born and die like him, redeemed by our Lord Jesus Christ, and capable of receiving salvation or damnation." Latin and English text, pub. Liseux, Paris, 1879.