Wessex . lovely beyond all other springtidevisions. And beneath them, as the soft breeze fromoff the uplands blows, comes a white and pinkcarpet more exquisite of tint than any yet wovenfor the palace of a queen—a carpeting of green andwhite, ghostly at dawn, and fairy-like at it is on such an one that the little, wise folk of legend and story hold their revels. This is the time when bit by bitThe days begin to lengthen sweet,And every minute gained is joy— has sung a poetess. And of such is the springtide ofWessex—when, as Francis Bacon says, the breath offlowers is far sweeter
Wessex . lovely beyond all other springtidevisions. And beneath them, as the soft breeze fromoff the uplands blows, comes a white and pinkcarpet more exquisite of tint than any yet wovenfor the palace of a queen—a carpeting of green andwhite, ghostly at dawn, and fairy-like at it is on such an one that the little, wise folk of legend and story hold their revels. This is the time when bit by bitThe days begin to lengthen sweet,And every minute gained is joy— has sung a poetess. And of such is the springtide ofWessex—when, as Francis Bacon says, the breath offlowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes andgoes like the warbling of music, and Nature, as yetuntired by the labours of a year, is fresh from winterssleep, and eager to do her best to rejoice the wayfarer,and bring hope anew into the heart of man. When summer comes, with its wealth of blossom and 234 THE PROME FROM BOCKHAMPTON BRIDGE View from Lower Mellstock Bridge, Fiddler of the Reels inLifes Little Ironies. Summer Time in Wessex harvest, the pilgrim in Wessex will find a new interestin its scenery and its life. Lanes and byways, which afew months before held but the promise of rich foliage,now have that promise fulfilled. The overarchingtrees make a royal canopy of shade for the sun-wearyeyes, and provide many a pleasant wayside nook fortired bodies a-tramp. Now the hedges are gay with blackberry, clematis,dog roses, and bell-flowered convolvulus. The litdebrook which trickles along below them sings a sharpersong than in spring, for its volume is less, and its notes,as it passes over the pebbles, are attuned to a differentkey. Beside it now are kingcups, orange-yellow andathirst for dew, in place of the paler primroses, and theshy violets have given place to azure-eyed forget-me-nots, whilst in the banks bloom the purple cranebill,pink mallows, and crimson-tipped daisies, all half-hidden neath the lush grass and fronds of harts-tongueand basket ferns. In the hedges are heard the
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