ESCLARMOUNDO

"Nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum."—Ovid

"There are those of us who would rather be with Cathal of the Woods, and be drunken with green fire, than gain the paradise of the holy Molios who banned him, if in that gain were to be heard no more the earth-sweet ancient song of the blood that is in the veins of youth....

"O green fire of life, pulse of the world! O Love, O Youth, O Dream of Dreams!

"The Annir Choille."

CONTENTS

BOOK FIRST
The Birds of Angus Ogue

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[I.] EUCHARIS3
[II.] THE HOUSE OF KERIVAL22
[III.] STORM37
[IV.] THE DREAM AND THE DREAMERS 53
[V.] THE WALKER IN THE NIGHT69
[VI.] VIA OSCURA99
[VII.] "DEIREADH GACH COGAIDH, SITH"
(THE END OF ALL WARFARE, PEACE)114
[VIII.] THE UNFOLDING OF THE SCROLL125
BOOK SECOND
The Herdsman
[IX.] RETROSPECTIVE: FROM THE HEBRID ISLES149
[X. ] AT THE EDGE OF THE SHADOW175
[XI.] MYSTERY195
[XII.] IN THE GREEN ARCADES208
[XIII.] THE MESSAGE224
[XIV.] THE LAUGHTER OF THE KING239
BOOK THIRD
[XV.] THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD259