Long known and loved by me,
Green Sussex fading into blue
With one gray glimpse of sea."

"Green Sussex fading into blue"--it is the motto for every Down summit,
South or North.

[Sidenote: SHELLEY AND TRELAWNY]

With reference to Shelley and Sussex, my attention has been drawn to an
interesting account of Field Place by Mr. Hale White, the author of the
Mark Rutherford novels, in an old _Macmillan's Magazine_. Says Mr.
White, "Denne Park [at Horsham] might easily have suggested--more easily
perhaps than any part of the country near Field Place--the well-known
semi-chorus in the _Prometheus_ which begins

'The path through which that lovely twain
Have passed, by cedar, pine, and yew,
And each dark tree that ever grew
Is curtained out from heaven's wide blue.'

The _Prometheus_, however, was written when Horsham was well-nigh
forgotten"--by its author.

Owing to a curious lapse of memory, I omitted to say that Sompting, near
Worthing, should be famous as the home of Edward John Trelawny, author
of _The Adventures of a Younger Son_, and the friend of Shelley and
Byron. In his Sompting garden, in his old age, Trelawny grew figs,
equal, he said, to those of his dear Italy, and lived again his
vigorous, picturesque, notable life. Sussex thus owns not only the poet
of "Adonais," but the friend who rescued his heart from the flames that
consumed his body on the shores of the Gulf, and bearing it to Rome
placed over its resting place in the Protestant cemetery the words from
the _Tempest_ (his own happy choice):--

"Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange."

The old man, powerful and capricious to the last, died at Sompting in
1881, within a year of ninety. His body was removed to Gotha for
cremation, and his ashes lie beside Shelley's heart in Rome.

Among the wise men of Lewes I ought not to have overlooked William
Durrant Cooper (1812-1875), a shrewd Sussex enthusiast and antiquary,
who as long ago as 1836 printed at his own cost a little glossary of the
county's provincialisms. The book, publicly printed in 1853, was, of
course, superseded by Mr. Parish's admirable collection, but Mr. Cooper
showed the way. One of his examples of the use of the West Sussex
pronoun _en_, _un_, or _um_ might be noted, especially as it involves
another quaint confusion of sex. _En_ and _un_ stand for him, her or it;
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