The Green Sheaf no.5 total 16pp. 225mm*295mm

第5号。表紙にある詩句は各号共通のもので、巻頭にきたり巻末にきたりする。いわく

My Sheaf is small . . . but it is green.
I will gather into my Sheaf all the young fresh things I can -- pitctures,
verses, ballads, of love and war ; tales of pirates and the sea.
You will find ballads of the old world in my Sheaf. Are they not
green for ever . . .
Ripe ears are good for bread, but green ears are good for pleasure.


The Dreamer and the World

Cecil French

135mm*200mm

レディー・グレゴリーがゲール語より翻訳した伝承 "CAEL AMD CREDHE"にコールマン・スミスがつけたイラスト。90mm*115mm
The Fairy Dance

Strange, how she heard the music calling
all the day long till night was falling
Then away and away from the homes of men,
She sped through the depths of the haunted glen
To the far hill-top where the grass is worn,
By the dancers' feet, to a shaven lawn,
And there she danced, through the summer night,
With fairy folk in the blue moon-light,
Swaying and dancing th hours away
In the fairy ring on the Eve of May.

And none can forget who that music hear,
For its echoes ring in the listener's ear;
And whoever with fairy hands enlaced
Has but once through those mystic mazes paced
They may wander away the whole world o'er,
Yet echoing strains from the Fairy Shore
Come calling them back to the far green hill,
Where the good little people are dancing still ;
And the moons may wax and the moons may wane,
That calling may never be heard in vain.
Oh, many the spirits of wandering maids
That are drawn back there in the evening shades,
For she who has taken the Faries' dole
Will never know rest for her aching soul,
You may tell, from her walk and her eyes so still,
The girl who has danced on the Fairy Hill.

Alix Egerton
Mary Brown 作 "THE LAMENT OF A LYCEUM RAT"の冒頭につけられたPCSのイラスト。コールマン・スミスも参加していたリシウム劇場が傾いてしまい、ドブネズミが劇団の衰亡を文学的に嘆くという楽屋落ち的な小品。125mm*45mm

PCS's illustration attached to "The Lament of a Lyceum Rat", a rather tongue-in-cheek piece by Mary Brown.



同じく「リシウム劇場に潜むドブネズミの嘆き」より。
ことの性質上、このイラストに描かれた人物はPCSが直接知るリシウムの関係者と思われる。

120mm*150mm


TIME

Around the clock the hours run,
By the moon and by the sun.
Twenty-four, the day is done.

Around the clock the hours go,
Summer sun and winter snow.
Every secret time doth know.

P.C.S.
　"Juveniles." by Bernhard Smith つけられたPCSのイラスト。55mm*150mm
　"WILL O' THE WISP" by Leslie Moore につけられたセシル・フレンチのイラスト。70mm*70mm
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