The Washer of the Ford: Legendary moralities and barbaric tales

· 1905

"Here are told the stories of these pictures of the imagination, of magic and romance. Yet they were gravely chosen withal, and for reasons manifold.... What if they be but dreams? 'We are such stuff as dreams are made of.' What if they be but magic and romance? These things are not ancient and dead, but modern and increasing. For wherever a man learns power over Nature, there is Magic; wherever he carries out an ideal into Life there is Romance." _I find, under the boughs of love and hate, Eternal Beauty wandering on her way._…

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