The Golden Age

The Golden Age consists of roughly thirty “pastoral tales,” touching on subjects that will be familiar to readers of almost any of Maréchal’s work. I’ve begun at the end of the collection, with “The Just Man,” and will add others as time allows. On dit qu’il fut un Temps appelle l’âge d’or, Où l’on sacrifioit à la Vérité nue, Où marchoit d’un pas sûr l’Innocence ingénue : Pour les cœurs Vertueux ce Temps existe encore. They say there was a Time called the Golden Age, When sacrifices were made to the naked Truth, When artless Innocence walked with a sure step: […]