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The Project Gutenberg EBook of England of My Heart--Spring, by Edward Hutton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: England of My Heart--Spring Author: Edward Hutton Release Date: November 18, 2003 [EBook #10120] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ENGLAND OF MY HEART--SPRING *** Produced by Ted Garvin, Carol David and PG Distributed Proofreaders ENGLAND of my HEART SPRING BY EDWARD HUTTON WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS BY GORDON HOME MCMXIV TO MY FRIEND O.K. INTRODUCTION England of my heart is a great country of hill and valley, moorland and marsh, full of woodlands, meadows, and all manner of flowers, and everywhere set with steadings and dear homesteads, old farms and old churches of grey stone or flint, and peopled by the kindest and quietest people in the world. To the south, the east, and the west it lies in the arms of its own seas, and to the north it is held too by water, the waters, fresh and clear, of the two rivers as famous as lovely, Thames and Severn, of which poets are most wont to sing, as Spenser when he invokes the first: "Sweete Themmes runne softly till I end my song"; or Dryden when he tells us of the second: "The goodly Severn bravely sings The noblest of her British kings, At Caesar's landing what we were, And of the Roman conquest here...." Within England of my heart, in the whole breadth of her delight, there is no industrial city such as infests, ruins, and spoils other lands, and in this she resembles her great and dear mother Italy. Like her, too, she is full of very famous towns scarcely to be matched for beauty and ancientness in the rest of the world, and their names which are like the words of a great poet, and which it is a pleasure to me to recite, are Canterbury, Chichester, Winchester, Salisbury, Bath, Wells, Exeter, and her ports, whose names are as household words, even in Barbary, are Dover, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Falmouth, and Bristol. All these she may well boast of, for what other land can match them quite? But there is a certain virtue of hers of which she is perhaps unaware, that is nevertheless
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