To burn the bones of the King of Edom for Lyme, seems no irrationall ferity. |
In the tradition of Roald Dahl and Maurice Sendak, Magnason's story celebrates the ferity and fearlessness of childhood as an idealized state. |
There is a savor of the like ferity and sweetness in this poem. |
The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet. |