The Ballad of Merrie Vale

From the prosaic to the elemental, the earthly to the celestial, the parochial to the sublime…

Down in the valley, we enter the demesne of dubious satyrs: transient phantoms and Delphian demigods, bucolic bachelors and vaguely seraphic spinsters – the lot of them immersed in petty imperium, frivolous anathema and despondent fancies. The ties that bind, the resentments that fester…

Merrie Vale is the immaculate maculation; the blot on the lantskip.