The Moon Endureth by John Buchan is a collection of tales and fancies, in prose and verse, which were originally published in Blackwoods Magazine. It includes From the Pentlands looking North and South, The Company of the Marjolaine, Avignon 1759, Lucid Interval, The Shorter Catechism (revised version), The Lemnian, Attas song, Space, Stocks and Stones, Streams of Water in the South, The Gipsys song to the lady Cassilis, The Grove of Ashtaroth, Wood magic, The riding of Ninemileburn, Plain Folk, The Kings of Orion, Babylon, The Green Glen, The Wise Years, Updaters note: Chapter 9 missing from etext], and The Rime of True Thomas. According to Wikipedia, John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchans 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies of Sir Walter Scott, Caesar Augustus, and Oliver Cromwell. Buchans most famous of his books were the spy thrillers (including) The 39 Steps (which was converted to a play as well as an Alfred Hitchcock movie starring Robert Donat as Richard Hannay, though with Buchans story much altered.) The last Buchan (as Graham Greene entitled his appreciative review) was the 1941 novel Sick Heart River (American title: Mountain Meadow), in which a dying protagonist confronts in the Canadian wilderness the questions of the meaning of life. The insightful quotation Its a great life, if you dont weaken is famously attributed to Buchan, as is No great cause is ever lost or won, The battle must always be renewed, And the creed must always be restated.
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