GREEN FIRE
A Romance
BY
FIONA MACLEOD
"_While still I may, I write for you
The love I lived, the dream I knew_"
NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1896, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
_All rights reserved._
TO
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
CHAP. PAGE
I. EUCHARIS 3
II. THE HOUSE OF KERIVAL 22
III. STORM 37
IV. THE DREAM AND THE DREAMERS 53
V. THE WALKER IN THE NIGHT 69
VI. VIA OSCURA 99
VII. "DEIREADH GACH COGAIDH, SITH" (THE
END OF ALL WARFARE, PEACE) ll4
VIII. THE UNFOLDING OF THE SCROLL 125
BOOK SECOND
THE HERDSMAN
IX. RETROSPECTIVE: FROM THE HEBRID ISLES 149
X. AT THE EDGE OF THE SHADOW 175
XI. MYSTERY 195
XII. IN THE GREEN ARCADES 208
XIII. THE MESSAGE 224
XIV. THE LAUGHTER OF THE KING 239
BOOK THIRD
XV. THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD 259
GREEN FIRE
BOOK FIRST
THE BIRDS OF ANGUS OGUE
Hither and thither,
And to and fro,
They thrid the Maze
Of Weal and Woe:
O winds that blow
For golden weather
Blo…