Birket Foster's pictures of English landscape . :The guelder-roses, snow on emerald-green, The ivy twining oer grey post and pale,The white-starred jessamine, whose fragrant screen Clothes the rough walls and scents the passing gale ;The bee-skeps, and their busy buzzing swarm Laden with honey from the bean-rows deep,The grey field-path, that to the upland farm Winds oer the lea, dotted with feeding sheep ;The kindly nature that still masks decay With flowers, and hues only less fair than flowers,All these I know,—know, too, the plagues that prey On those who dwell in these bepainted bowers :T
Birket Foster's pictures of English landscape . :The guelder-roses, snow on emerald-green, The ivy twining oer grey post and pale,The white-starred jessamine, whose fragrant screen Clothes the rough walls and scents the passing gale ;The bee-skeps, and their busy buzzing swarm Laden with honey from the bean-rows deep,The grey field-path, that to the upland farm Winds oer the lea, dotted with feeding sheep ;The kindly nature that still masks decay With flowers, and hues only less fair than flowers,All these I know,—know, too, the plagues that prey On those who dwell in these bepainted bowers :The foul miasma of their crowded rooms, Unaired, unlit, with green damps moulded oer,The fever that each autumn deals its dooms From the rank ditch that stagnates by the door;And then I wish the picturesqueness less, And welcome the utilitarian handThat from such foulness plucks its masquing dress, And bids the well-aired, well-drained cottage stand,All bare of weather-stain, right-angled true, By sketchers shunned, but shunned by levers 18
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