In Cornwall and Across the Sea With Poems Written in Devonshire. By Douglas B. W. Sladen |
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COCKINGTON LANES,
near Torquay.
Rare afternoon in an October rare!We passed red cliffs environing blue seas,
Red lanes with green banks bounded and elm trees;
The sky was clouded lightly; soft the air
And fresh and soft the breezes; the rich glare
Of red and green was almost Cinghalese,
Recalling for the traveller reveries
Of red-tiled roofs and palm-tree groves, so fair
To unaccustomed eyes; but soon the green
Of elms with linden-yellow, hawthorn-red,
And marvellous horse-chestnut-orange sheen
Was tempered, and once more 'twas mine to tread
The merry, crackling leaves—a sound scarce known
In ever-green Australia's milder zone.
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