. Shakespeare's England . dering beauty who out-weighed Englands crown (at least in story), and whosespirit is the everlasting genius of the place. There is a row of cottages opposite to tlie ruins ofthe castle, in which contentment seems to have madeher home. The ivy embowers them. The roses clusteraround their little windows. The greensward slopesaway, in front, from big, flat stones that are embeddedin the mossy sod before their doors. Down in the val- VII WARWICK AND KENILWORTH 75 ley, hard by, your steps stray through an ancient grave-yard — in which stands the parish church, a carefullyr
. Shakespeare's England . dering beauty who out-weighed Englands crown (at least in story), and whosespirit is the everlasting genius of the place. There is a row of cottages opposite to tlie ruins ofthe castle, in which contentment seems to have madeher home. The ivy embowers them. The roses clusteraround their little windows. The greensward slopesaway, in front, from big, flat stones that are embeddedin the mossy sod before their doors. Down in the val- VII WARWICK AND KENILWORTH 75 ley, hard by, your steps stray through an ancient grave-yard — in which stands the parish church, a carefullyrestored building of the eleventh century, with tower, andclock, and bell — and past a few fragments of the Abbeyand Monastery of St. Mary, destroyed in 1538. Atmany another point, on the roads betwixt Warwick andKenilworth and Stratford, I came upon such nests ofcosy, rustic quietand seeming hap-piness. Theybuild their coun-try houses low, inEngland, so thatthe trees over-hang them, andthe cool, friendly,flower-gemmed. ^KC 1,^ a Old Inn. earth — parent,and stay, andbourne of mortallife — is tenderlytaken into , at Kenil-worth, as elsewhere, at such places as Marlowe, Henley,Richmond, Maidenhead, Cookham, and the region roundabout Windsor, I saw many a sweet nook where tiredlife might be content to lay down its burden and enterinto its rest. In all true love of country — a passionthat seems to be more deeply felt in England than any-where else upon the globe—there is love for the literalsoil itself : and surely that sentiment in the human heart VII WARWICK AND KENILWORTII 77 honour, as long as literature is prized among men —was the first, in modern days, to discover the beau-ties and to interpret the poetry of the birthplace ofShakespeare.
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