Contents -- 1 -- The Abyss -- The Facts on the Ground -- A Temptation in the Wilderness -- The Atonement -- The Blessings of Liberty -- The Light of the Living -- Another Part of the Forest -- The Monks at Large -- The Queen of Heaven -- This Life -- Souls in Purgatory -- Afternoon of the Hun -- On the Beach at Saugatuck -- The Last Man -- The Council -- A Passerby and His Companions Visit the Widow after the Mad Avenger's Dreadful Accident -- A Creak of Hinges -- Free Country -- The Banquet -- The Music of Forgiveness -- Rendering Aquinas -- A Rhetoric upon the Window -- 2 -- Summer in Umbria -- Remembering Skye -- The Ape of Emain Macha -- A Highway Brook in Dingle -- The Moving Statue at Melleray -- Poulnabrone Dolmen -- Lake Isle -- A Catch in the Breath -- A Girl Sings to Moravia at the World's End -- Magpies -- The Land of Heart's Desire -- The World of Light -- The Magnum Opus -- The Boulevardier -- Why We Forget the Things We Thought We Wouldn't -- Dream Vacation -- B-Minor Mass -- Merciless Beauty -- The Peasants' Rising -- A State of Grace -- The Island -- 3 -- The Rooming House -- A Sign from Heaven -- The Consolation -- A Light in the House -- A Phantom of Delight -- The Nightgown -- The Flesh -- Stickbug -- Great Beast -- White Dwarf -- Lawn Mower -- Angelology -- Watering Impatiens -- Truth -- Requiem -- Lost Boy -- Café Paradiso -- Badia Fiesolana -- The Disenthralled.