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The White Heron. Oct.'85 Text below from Page 284."The Divine Adventure".

The previous image, 'The Red Sail', comes from the story called 'The White Heron'.
It goes on to tell of Mary, back home, startled, springing to her feet.

""It is the cry of a heron," she muttered with dry lips; "but who has heard tell of a
white heron? - and the bird there is as white as a snow wreath.""

It is part of a premonition, of fear, for her lover, Angus of the Nighean Donn.

"For on the morrow she learned that the Nighean Donn had been run down in the mist
a mile south of Ithona -" Her love is never realised.
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