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AN ENGLISH HOME.
Deep in a hazy hollow of the down,
The brick-built Court in mellow squareness stood,
Where feathery beeches fringed the hanging wood,
And sighing cedars spread a carpet brown.
The brick-built Court in mellow squareness stood,
Where feathery beeches fringed the hanging wood,
And sighing cedars spread a carpet brown.
Out of the elms the jetty treefolk sent
A clamorous welcome: while the roses made
Their vesper offering, and the creeper laid
His flaming hands about the pediment.
A clamorous welcome: while the roses made
Their vesper offering, and the creeper laid
His flaming hands about the pediment.
O happy souls, most fatherly denied
The cares that fret, not quicken: drawn to know
The healing hands that hang upon the Cross;
And through pure agonies of love and loss,
Wrought into sorrow for a world of woe;
And from a prosperous baseness purified.
The cares that fret, not quicken: drawn to know
The healing hands that hang upon the Cross;
And through pure agonies of love and loss,
Wrought into sorrow for a world of woe;
And from a prosperous baseness purified.
Bere Court, 1884. (Spectator)
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