...so hard, 'twill soon be gone: To-day the Roman and his trouble Are ashes under Uricon. (AE Housman). Clean of officious fence or hedge, Half-wild and wholly...cloaks the white cliff edge As when the Romans came. (Kipling). Here the Roman lived on the wind-barren lonely, Dark now and haunted by the moorland fowl....

...No bosomed woods adorn Our blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs, But gnarled and writhen thorn. Dun slopes where chasing shadows skim, And through the...officious fence or hedge, Half-wild and wholly tame, The old turf cloaks the white cliff edge As when the Romans came. What sign of those that fought and died...

...bosomed woods adorn Our blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs, But gnarled and writhen thorn — Bare slopes where chasing shadows skim, And through the...wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white cliff edge What sign of those that fought and died At shift of sword and sword? The barrow and the camp abide,...

...bosomed woods adorn Our blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs, But gnarled and writhen thorn — Bare slopes where chasing shadows skim, And through the...wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white cliff edge What sign of those that fought and died At shift of sword and sword? The barrow and the camp abide,...

...bosomed woods adorn Our blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs, But gnarled and writhen thorn — Bare slopes where chasing shadows skim, And through the...belt, the wooded dim Blue goodness of the Weald." SOUTH of the lower Thames, and parallel with its general course from west to east, lie three slender...

...stranger men ! DOWN THE MOSEL TO ECHTERNACH Une terre aimee du ciel et favorisee des dieux. AUSONE. What sign of those that fought and died At shift of...barrow and the camp abide, The sunlight and the sward. K.IPUNG. •.:>. •Q CHAPTER IV DOWN THE MOSEL TO ECHTERNACH THE height of land between Mondorf and...

...stranger men ! DOWN THE MOSEL TO ECHTERNACH Une terre aimee du ciel et favorisee des dieux. AUSONE. What sign of those that fought and died At shift of...barrow and the camp abide, The sunlight and the sward. KIPLING. CHAPTER IV DOWN THE MOSEL TO ECHTERNACH THE height of land between Mondorf and Remich cuts...

...which he often sat to read or gaze between the copper beeches where the landscape " Through the gap revealed Belt upon belt the wooded, dim Blue goodness of the weald." Had his mind been as happy as his body, it would have been Paradise indeed, but though he was doing...

...bosomed woods adorn Our blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs, But gnarled and writhen thorn — Bare slopes where chasing shadows skim, And through the...Half-wild and wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white cliff-edge As when the Romans came. What sign of those that fought and died At shift of sword and sword?...

...bosomed woods adorn Our blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs, But gnarled and withered thorn— Bare slopes where chasing shadows skim, And through the...belt, the wooded, dim Blue goodness of the Weald. The same spirit of reverence and wonder is to be found in the work of George Borrow. This writer, indeed,...