The Roadmender by Michael Fairless

Transcribed from the 1911 Duckworth and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE ROADMENDER I have attained my ideal: I am a roadmender, some say stonebreaker. Both titles are correct, but the one is more pregnant than the other. All day I sit by the roadside on a stretch of grass under a high

The Grey Brethren and Other Fragments in Prose and Verse by Michael Fairless

Transcribed from the 1911 Duckworth and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE GREY BRETHREN AND OTHER FRAGMENTS IN PROSE AND VERSE Contents The Grey Brethren A Song of Low Degree A German Christmas Eve A Christmas Idyll The Manifestation All Souls’ Day in a German Town By Rivers and Streams Spring A Lark’s

The Gathering of Brother Hilarius by Michael Fairless

Transcribed from the 1912 John Murray edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE GATHERING OF BROTHER HILARIUS PART I–THE SEED CHAPTER I–BLIND EYES IN THE FOREST Hilarius stood at the Monastery gate, looking away down the smooth, well-kept road to the highway beyond. It lay quiet and serene in the June sunshine, the white way