“To sit beside the board and drink good wine
And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire
And feel content and wisdom in your heart
This is the best of life“
I don’t remember the name of the bookstore. It was close to Odyssey Video near the crossroads of Camarillo St, Vineland Ave, and Lankershim Blvd. During the mid-nineties, this video store held mysteries and films to find. The bookstore is next to it too. There is a wide selection of books, film scripts and beyond at this amazing bookstore. We found this limited edition by Yeats for my graduation.
This book printed by C.F. Benoit by the Brothers Johnson at The Windsor Press: 750 copies printed on Rye hand-made paper and the type distributed. In the year MCMXXVI.
This beloved hand-held book, The Land Of Heart’s Desire, has traveled through various living spaces and now sits on the hearth above the fireplace, where it inspires dreams of Celtic twilight and Faeryland during summer readings.
This little folk-lore -story-play is not so content and the conflict is wild as the call of the fay by song and dance is true:
‘The wind blows out the gates of the day,
The wind blows over the lonely of heart,
And the lonely of heart is withered away,
Shaking their milk-white feet in a ring,
Tossing their milk-white arms in the air;
For they hear the wind laugh and murmur and sing…”
As Maire Bruin is called away, so she goes… and so would I … would you? A wonderful read this time of year!!
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