Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-04-22

The wealth Of number Of these olden
villages in Kent alone would confound
the Dryasdus,s and the iconoclasis Of
rural England. II Is with a thrill OF
delight that you wander through Salt
wood, pecping out between leafy hills
upon the glorious sea, Lyminge, messy
and still beside the most ancient church
Of southern Kent, so ancient that in its
walls are actually seen every specimen
Of ecclesiastic architecture from Saxon
to Perpendicular, so ancient still that st.
Edilbergan, one Of It's patron saints and
daughter Of the Saxon King Etheltert,
who reigned more than 1000 years ago,
lies buried within; Firth with its unique
old houses, its winding lanes OF green,
banks Of chalk, shadowy combes and
tender uplands Gotham, leafiest, snug.
gcSt and prcttiest of all Kentish villages,
with It's lordly park, It's straightforward
churches and brasses Of 600 years in
memory Of the noble Cobhams, and It's
Leather Bottle" inn made famous in
the immortal pages Of Pickwick; beauti-
ful old Shorne, girdled with massive
elms and richest orchard bloom; and
hundred more set along the lane girt
downs, clustering in the woody Weld. or
nesting among the Kentish orchards
and hop.gdrdens, with their rows Of cot
tages with white washed walls, dormcr
windows, matched roofs and garden
fronts each maze Of fuschias, pinks,
carnations and roses; and all OF them
from hundred to thousand years
old.
Who is there to fifty describe or paint
the droning old villages Of that curious
English region variously known as the
Norfolk Breads, ""The Broad District
and the Norfolk and Suffolk Fene, :"
where, as at Dllham and Ruston. many
an old daub-and.wattle cottage may still
be seem II Is a land Of lagoons, Of
grassy dykes. Of ghostly wind.mills as
huge aud as numerous as In Holland; OF
rich and low lying farm steadings inter.
spersed by "broads" OF sedgy. shallow
lakes; Of mighty herds Of cattle and
sheep; Of duck, widgeon, mallard and
coot; OF picturesque inns-ot.call half
hidden among copses OF willows; OF
ruined castles, abbcys and priorieS
whose ancient moats are now serving
as market.gardeners canals; Of gray old
hamle,s set about with clumps OF pollard
oaks; and of a peasantry as simple,
brave and true as in good old Sir John
fastolfs day-not Shakspeare's unctious
knave OF the merry Wives" but Of the
real Fastolf who valorsosly fought the
battle Of Herrings and soundly drubbed
the French.
The eventide pictures from some OF
these old waterside hamlet porches are
worthy the brush OF Turner or Millet.
As the sun goes down in forests of wav.
ing reeds, II flames the matches OF
hamleis on opposite shores. weirdly
lights the arms Of the spectral wind
mills, bringing to a looming nearness
the grim Norman towers OF far olden
churches, or gilds the ivied top OF some
medieval rum as with gold. As II sinks
from sight the waters OF the Breads are
for a moment purple, then pitchy black,
when instantly the stars are shining in
the depths above and from the waters
beneath with shimmering luster
enveloping all. Then the songs and
chirps OF myriad insects; the whirr and
splash OF late.homing waterfowl; and
the witching, whispered soughing OF the
breeze in the rushes and the reeds.
Up in Cumberland and Westmoreland,
what loving wraiths OF memory are con-
jured when basking in the glowing
beauty Of slumberous, verdure.clad.
blossom.bowered Keswick, Grasmere
Rydal, Amblesde and Bownessl Here
in old Keswick town dwelt and sang,
and lies buried In Crossthwaite church,