Contents
In the Forest of Stone 3
The Song of the Minster 15
The Pilgrim of a Night 21
The Ancient Gods Pursuing 31
The Dream of the White Lark 45
The Hermit of the Pillar 49
Kenach's Little Woman 61
Golden Apples and Roses Red 71
The Seven Years of Seeking 87
The Guardians of the Door 117
On the Shores of Longing 125
The Children of Spinalunga 135
The Sin of the Prince Bishop 147
The Little Bedesman of Christ 153
The Burning of Abbot Spiridion 175
The Countess Itha 183
The Story of the Lost Brother 197
The King Orgulous 213
The Journey of Rheinfrid 231
Lighting the Lamps 249
List of Illustrations
Women lived the life of prayer and praise and austerity and miracle 9
"These are the fields in which the Shepherds watched" 25
Hilary wondered and mused 39
A gaunt, dark figure, far up in the blue Asian sky 51
"Come not any nearer, turn thy face to the forest, and go down" 67
"I am not mad, most noble Sapricius" 73
They won their long sea-way home 111
"And four good Angels watch my bed, two at the foot and two the head" 121
And again in the keen November 127
The eight hundred horsemen turned in dismay 141
"Surely in all the world God has no more beautiful house than this" 149
St. Francis of Assisi 155
Itha rode away with her lord 185
King Orgulous 215
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