The cottages and the village life of rural England . Theywere erected usually by some squire who wished to benefit theold people on his estate, and endowed them with lands and moneyso that they might last for ever. Of these the poet sings : Oh, the good old times of England ! When her gentlemen had hands to give and her yeomen hearts to feel ; And they raised up many a bede-house, but never a bastille; And the poor they honoured, for they knew that He, who for us bled, Had seldom, when He came to earth, whereon to lay His Head. The door is a very important feature of the house, and tellsof man
The cottages and the village life of rural England . Theywere erected usually by some squire who wished to benefit theold people on his estate, and endowed them with lands and moneyso that they might last for ever. Of these the poet sings : Oh, the good old times of England ! When her gentlemen had hands to give and her yeomen hearts to feel ; And they raised up many a bede-house, but never a bastille; And the poor they honoured, for they knew that He, who for us bled, Had seldom, when He came to earth, whereon to lay His Head. The door is a very important feature of the house, and tellsof many happy comings and goings, and of some sad ones the mother stands waiting to welcome her young childrenback from school. She is blest with many olive-branches, buta little later on she told me: When they are young they makeyour arms ache; when they are older they make your heart mother ! may that not be their common lot and that door the labourer home returns weary with his dailytoil, saying to himself : 76. FARMHOUSE, BRENT ELEIGH. SUFFOLK This farmhouse at Brent Eleigh, in Suffolk, is a little gem ofthe humbler forms of domestic architecture. It is a timber-framedstructure, the interstices being filled in with brickwork arrangedin herring-bone fashion. The nearness of the uprights indicatesearly work and proclaims its date about the early portion of thesixteenth century. We notice the projecting upper storey,, the olddoor, the very fine chimney composed of twin octagonal shafts,with an ingeniously contrived and graceful head formed of projectingcourses of bricks which are arranged with angular projections, thegable with barge-boards not flush with the wall, an indication ofearly work, and carved with cusp ornamentation. LIFE OF RURAL ENGLAND Be the day weary, be the day long,At length it ringeth to evensong. And great joy reigns when a soldier son from India enters throughthat door, and brings with him presents from that far-distantland
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