. Wet days at Edgewood: with old farmers, old gardeners, and old pastorals. cts the wall-ing, and Smith of Deanston the ploughing. Burns em-balms all my field-mice, and Cowper drapes an urn forme in a tangled wilderness. Knight names my cher-ries, and Walton, the kind master, goes with me overthe hill to a wee brook that bounds down imder hem-locks and soft maples, for a contemplative mans rec- 324 WET DAYS. reation. Davy long ago caught all the fermentationof my mamue-heap in his retort, and Thomson paintedfor me the scene which is under my ^vindow cures the pip in my poultry,
. Wet days at Edgewood: with old farmers, old gardeners, and old pastorals. cts the wall-ing, and Smith of Deanston the ploughing. Burns em-balms all my field-mice, and Cowper drapes an urn forme in a tangled wilderness. Knight names my cher-ries, and Walton, the kind master, goes with me overthe hill to a wee brook that bounds down imder hem-locks and soft maples, for a contemplative mans rec- 324 WET DAYS. reation. Davy long ago caught all the fermentationof my mamue-heap in his retort, and Thomson paintedfor me the scene which is under my ^vindow cures the pip in my poultry, and all the songsof all the birds are caught and repeated to the echo inthe pages of the poets which lie here under my hand ;through the prism of their verse, Patrick the cattle-ten-der changes to a lithe milkmaid, against whose anldesthe buttercups nod rejoicingly, and Rosamund (whichis the nurse) wakes all Arden (which is Edgewood)with a rich burst of laushter. THB END. University of British Columbia Library DUE DATE FORM 310 AGRICULTURE FORESTRY LIBRARY LiJ I 1. 650. 56
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