The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-04-23

land of laRoons; of grassy dykes; of Rhostly
wind mills as huge and as numerous a. in
Holland; Of rich and low lying farm stead
ings in%terspersed by. "broads" of sedgy.
and sheep; Of duck. wideeon. mallard and
coot; Of picturesque inns-of-oall half hid
den among copses of willows: of ruined
castles, abbeys and priories whose ancient
moats are now serving as market-gardeners'
canals; Of gray old hamlets set about with
clumps of pollard oaks; and of n peasantry
az simple, brave and true as in good old Sir
John Fastolf's days-not Shakespeare's
unctious knavs Of the merry Wives" but
of the real Fastolf who valorously fought
the battle of Herrings and soundly drubbed
he French.
old waterside hamlet porches are worthy
the brush of n Turner or q Millet. As the
sun goes down in forests of waving reeds. il
flames the thatohes OF hamlets on opposite
shore. weirdly lights the arms of tho
spectral wind mills, bringing to a looming
olden churches. or giIds the ivied top of
some medieval ruin as with gold. As it
sinks from sight the waters of the Breads
are for q moment purple, then pitchy black,
whom instantly the stars are shining in the
depths above and from the waters beneath
Then the songs md chirps of myriad in
scots; the whirr and splash of late.hominR
water fowl, and the witching. whispered
souRhing of the breeze In the rushea and
the reeds.
Up In Cumberland aud Westmoreland,
what loving wraiths Of memory are con-
iured when basking in Tho glowing beauty
of slumberous, verdure.cla blossom-bow-
cred Keswick. Grasmere, Rydal. Ambleside
and Bowness! Hero in old Ksswick town
dwelt and sang, and lies buried in Cross
thwaite church yard. near the murmurinps
of the Greta he 80 loved. the high-souled
poet of pensive remembrance and medjtat-
i've calm, Robert Southly. Here. too. the
unhappy ColeridRe passed the most fruit
full, though still the most miserable, years
of his baleful slavery to a deadly drug; and
with his girl wife. Harriet. Shelly here
knew the only happy hours of his unfortu-
nate life. In ancient Grasmere-Grasmere
of ancient 'rush- bearing fame; Gras-
mere with perhaps the oldest and
certainly the qunintest church In Eng
l and; Grasmere where tho brave old dame
soundly walloped the prince of Wales for
'hal rying' her sheep;-.Ihomas Do Quin-
cey lived in his dream-lifs madness; and,
in st. Oswnld's church yard sleep Hartley
Coleridge and William Wordsworth. be-
sides the beauteous Rothay, which, leaping
from sequeatering meadows. gives back
along the old church wall the deathless
songs they sung.
That ono whose memory gives to the or
gan tones of the two cascades of Rydal
their wondrous heart thrilling power, who
is first and last when you eyes of fancy
penetrate the past, il Wordsworth, who
lived on Rydal mount. above the hamlet.
for forty Runlit years. sturdy. iconoclas-
tic, yet true and practically Christian II
still herotic. Harriet Martinenu. stands
b light md clear in the picture among the
blossoms Of songful Amblesido. Christie
topher North. with his huge frame and be-
nign face. as il the very spirit of the lovely
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makes these village wavs SUMMER
for his sturdy. sure tread. With
him. though later. you will 500 another one,
finn. calm. tender, noble, one who through
his labor at Rugby swept forever from the
British educational syatem tho rulo OF
b brutality and dread. lofty-souled. noble
DIR. Arnold; while old Bownsss budding
between tho highway and the foil side IL
sweeter still because you SEQ through it's
tiny cottage panes the wrath OF good Fe-
lioia Hcmnns, with n lingo OF sadness in
her pallid. patient face.
Pleasant indeed IL a wook's idle lettering
among the villages Of SUI rey. !. some Of tho
most picturesque timbefed cottages of
England can DO found nmon9 these ancient
hamlets. Sleepy old GodalminR waa oncc N
nest of fuller's homes, and numbers OF
these hnbitations nre still in good prcserva-
ton. At Shere. tho 70 NOR home of tho
earls OF Ornond and the noble house of
Audley, and roundabouts are WON
drously interesting lanes of cottages,
Besides, there nrU Wonersh. with its
fine gables and ohimnsys and charmingly
picturesque old mill house; Haslemere with