"When the soul is exhausted of fire, then doth the spirit return unto
its primal nature and there is upon it a peace great and of the woodland
"_magna pax et silvestris_."
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).
[Footnote 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.]