Epigraph
Many runes the cold has taught me,
Many lays the rain has brought me,
Other songs the winds have sung me;
Many birds from many forests
Oft have sung me lays in concord;
Waves of sea, and ocean billows,
Music from the many waters,
Music from the whole creation,
Oft have been my guide and master.
The Kalevala.
“Beauty and solitude,... these are the shepherd kings of the imagination, to compel our wandering memories, our thoughts, our dreams.”
F. M.