The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . een unsavoury. Association ofvarious kinds were recalled for our en- lightenment, and we began to realisethat the haunts of Coleridge and Ar-nold were not places of imagination,but actual earthly paradises. Quota-tions, favourite and otherwise, beganto effei-vesce, with the result that ouraverage ignorance of lyric poetry be-came appalling. What were we todo ? Here we were in the very birth-place of manj^ poetic moods, and yetwe knew them not. But there wasmeaning in it all for us, because wehad now visu
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . een unsavoury. Association ofvarious kinds were recalled for our en- lightenment, and we began to realisethat the haunts of Coleridge and Ar-nold were not places of imagination,but actual earthly paradises. Quota-tions, favourite and otherwise, beganto effei-vesce, with the result that ouraverage ignorance of lyric poetry be-came appalling. What were we todo ? Here we were in the very birth-place of manj^ poetic moods, and yetwe knew them not. But there wasmeaning in it all for us, because wehad now visualisation of the environ-ment, and we realised, even with ourscant knowledge, that these mastersof the lyric muse who had visited anddwelt here sang in their day with thetruth and beauty of nature as theirinspiration and genuineness as theirfoundation. And if that was so, whatmight we not expect from the varietyand grandeur and bigness of the faceof our own country ? We there cameto know that our country is big andthat we are small. And, having real-ised that, the whole undertaking was. STARTING BACK FROM WATERLOO in that one stroke fully justified. To tliose of us for whom Winnipeghad been the objective point, almostthe vanishing point, of a lifetime,all these things were a real awaken-ing—to drive down through thehurry and scurry of London Streetsfrom Euston Station to our lodg-ings in South Kensington; to findourselves suddenly engulfed in theLondon Tubes; to be hunting inthe vicinity of Amen Corner for ourentertainment at Stationers Hall; tobe holding our own as best we couldin the company of knights and earlsand great ladies at Lady St. Heliersreception, or again at Lady Clem-entine Warings; to be entertain-ed at tea by the Archbishop of Cant-erbury and Mrs. Davidson, at Lam-beth Palace ; to be guests of the Mem-bers of Parliament on the terrace ofthe House of Commons; to breakbread with Lady Warwick, at War-wicl; Castle : to lunch in tlio nivster- ious old dining-hall a
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