The Severed Mantle (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Severed Mantle IN this book I have tried to picture Provence in the time of the troubadours. I show the land of the nightingale and rose when Idealism reigned supreme, with Love, Joy, and Song her counsellors. Here love first ceased to mean passion, and homage of woman grew to be a religion, the joy of life was over all, and song the natural expression of every feeling. At the very heart of it there was a great earnest ness, but it was the fervor of children - children who had lofty dreams to which they could not climb. They believed that love should come to youth as the hawthorn bud to springtime, not desire, but devotion which asked little, and found contentment in itself. No matter how strong the love or how inspired the song, it must be always controlled by mesura. This was no less their creed, though the most devout broke the chains which held them for the world was young. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.