. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. XIV. AN ENGLISH It has been much the habit of poets and essayists to moralise the stream by finding in it a symbol of human life. Such poems as Miss Ingelow's " Divided " savour of it; and Lord Tennyson's exquisite lyric in "The Brook: an Idyl" brings the parabolic element into fine prominence—a point which the famous "C. L. ;, the late Mr. Calverley, very cleverly took advantage of and fully brought out in his well-known parody of it. • For the stream has its quiet seclud
. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. XIV. AN ENGLISH It has been much the habit of poets and essayists to moralise the stream by finding in it a symbol of human life. Such poems as Miss Ingelow's " Divided " savour of it; and Lord Tennyson's exquisite lyric in "The Brook: an Idyl" brings the parabolic element into fine prominence—a point which the famous "C. L. ;, the late Mr. Calverley, very cleverly took advantage of and fully brought out in his well-known parody of it. • For the stream has its quiet secluded infancy up in some remote mountain cradle, where the winds fan it, and the sunshine makes it radiant, as it goes laughing play- ful through its sobbing grasses, waving sedges, or by banks bright with starlike primroses, and ragweed and ranunculus in their season, then on, like flushing youth, as it broadens its breast to sun and moon, to receive 238. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay), 1839-1905. New York, Macmillan & Co.
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