. Brambles and bay leaves; essays on the homely and the beautiful . Us to your mind theluxuriant hedge-rows and chalk hills of Kent. That brilliant speci-men of helianthemum vulgare brings you a picture of the rocky glenand wild scenery of the rugged moimtains where it was pretty epilobium gives you a reminiscence of a sweet, quiet spring,which gushes forth in a lovely green nook in a little village in Buck-inghamshire. Another gives you a pleasant memory of a lonely greenwood, where the thrush and the blackbird carol joyously at little Alpine plant, or even that common
. Brambles and bay leaves; essays on the homely and the beautiful . Us to your mind theluxuriant hedge-rows and chalk hills of Kent. That brilliant speci-men of helianthemum vulgare brings you a picture of the rocky glenand wild scenery of the rugged moimtains where it was pretty epilobium gives you a reminiscence of a sweet, quiet spring,which gushes forth in a lovely green nook in a little village in Buck-inghamshire. Another gives you a pleasant memory of a lonely greenwood, where the thrush and the blackbird carol joyously at little Alpine plant, or even that common flower, the linariacymbalaria, will tell you of some old castle, which, with its high 82 BRAMBLES AND BAY LEAVES. bastion and massive crumbling walls, hangs frowning upon the edgeof a cliff above the foam of the sea. In fact, no end of sucnymemories, and sweet associations of woodland rambles, country-gossip, and rustic simplicity and beauty, are always to be found inthese dry plants. The flowers, in silence, seem to breatheSuch thoughts as language cannot 183 FOOTSTEPS OF THE SEASONS. ** So forth issued the Seasons of the year. First lusty Spring, all dight in leaves of flowers, That freshly budded and new blooms did bear, In which a thousand birds had built their bowers, That sweetly sung to call forth paramours ; And in his hand a javelin he did bear, And on his head (as fit for warlike stoures) A gilt engraven morion he did wear;That as some did him love, so others did him fear. *• Then comes the jolly Summer, being dight In a thin silken cassock coloured green, That was unlined all, to be more light; And on his head a girlond well beseene He wore, from which, as he had chauflfed beene The sweat did drop ; and in his hand he bore A bowe and shaftes, as he in forest greene Had hunted late the libbard or the now would bathe his limbes, with labor heated sore. Then came the Autumn, all in yellow clad. As though he joyed in his plenteous store, Laden with fr
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