Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . express, with a few exceptions, all thedelights that the average man takes ina summers path. For I have loved the rural walk through lanesOf grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheepAnd skirted thick with intertexture firmOf thorny boughs; have loved the rural walkOer hills, through valleys, and by rivers brink,Eer since a truant boy I passed my boundsTo enjoy a ramble on the banks of Thames; Many of us have known what arural walk like that means to a truantschoolboy. He only needs to havegone over one hill and perhaps downinto one va
Undine and our sylvan world; sixteen nature sketches . express, with a few exceptions, all thedelights that the average man takes ina summers path. For I have loved the rural walk through lanesOf grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheepAnd skirted thick with intertexture firmOf thorny boughs; have loved the rural walkOer hills, through valleys, and by rivers brink,Eer since a truant boy I passed my boundsTo enjoy a ramble on the banks of Thames; Many of us have known what arural walk like that means to a truantschoolboy. He only needs to havegone over one hill and perhaps downinto one valley before he has entirelyforgotten the book and the ferule. At the height of his happiness whenhe turns a green lane and his fathersiezes him by the collar, the hard bonyhand or a good willow stick interruptsthe Elysian dream of the rambler, and-84-
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