In Cornwall and Across the Sea With Poems Written in Devonshire. By Douglas B. W. Sladen |
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DEVONSHIRE.
Broad county of deep hedge-rows and blown trees,With wild deer ranging on thine eastern heights,
And salmon in thy spates, and rich in bights
And wooded estuaries and pebbled quays,
Elbowed against the western storms and seas!
Great mother of Elizabethan Knights,
Who fought in frozen seas and famous fights,
And bearing in thy quaint-named villages
The impress of the Norman, as thou bearest
The emblem of the Briton on thy moors!
Nor is this all thou boastest but the fairest
Of mead and orchard, yielding oft-sung stores
Of cream and cider—for thy wealth with fame
As great as for wild beauty and high name.
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