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

yard, near the murmurings OF the Greta.
he so loved. that high.souled poet OF
pensive remembrance and medta'iye
calm, Robert Southey Here, too, the
unhappy Coleridge passed the most
fruitful, though still the most miserable,
years Of his baleful slavery 10 a deadly
drug: and with his girl vile, Harriet,
Shelly here knew the only happy hours
OF his unfortunate life. In ancient Gras-
mefe-Crasmcr OF ancient 'rush'bear'
ing" fame; Grasmere with perhaps the
oldest and certainly the quaintest church
in England, Grasmere where the brave
old dame soundly walloped the Prince
OF Wales for marrying" her Sheep
Thomas De Quincy lived in his dream
life madness; and In ST. Oswalds
church.yard sleep Hartley Coleridge
and William Wordsworth, beside the
beauteous Rothay, which, leaping from
sequestering meadows, gives back along
the old church-wall the deathless songs
they sung.
That one whose memory gives TO the
ofgan-tones Of the two cascades oil
Rydal their wondrous heart-thiilling
power, who Is first and last when Your
eyes OF fancy penetrated the past, Is
Wordsworth. who lived on Rydal
mount, above the hamlet, for forty
sunlit years. Sturdy, iconoclastic, yet
true and practically Christian 4 still
hereto, Harriet Martineau stands bright,
clear in the picture among the blossoms
Of songful Ambleside. Christopher
North with his huge frame and benign
face, ms II the very spirit OF the lovely
region shone from his kindly eyes,
makes these village ways SUMMER for his
strong, sure tread. With him, though
later, you will see another one, firm,
calm, tender, noble one who through his
labor at Rugby swept forever from the
British educational system the rule OF
brutality and dread, lofty soled, noble
DR.. Arnold, while old Bowness huddl-
ing between the highway and the fell
side Is sweeter still because you see
through its tiny cottage panes the wrath
OF good Felicia Hemans, with a tinge OF
sadness In her pallid, patient face.
Pleasant indeed Is weeks idle loiter.
ing among the villages Of Surrey. Some
of the most picturesque timbered cot
tages Of Engla d can be found among
these ancient hamlets. Sleepy old
Godalmlng was once a nest of fullers'
homes, and numbers Of these habitations
are still in good preservation. AT Shere,
the former home oil the eafls OF Ormond
and the noble house OF Audley, and
roundabout are wondrously interesting
lanes Of cottages. Besides, there are
Wonersh, with Its fine gables and
chimneys and charming picturesque old
mill house; Haslemcre with It's high and
graceful chimneys; Chiddingiord, where
glass was first made in England. with its
fine fourteenth century cottages and
famous old Crown Inn, Whitley, with its
church.tower surmounted by spire as
quaint as that OF Stode Poges, and its
cottages which are In every artists
sketch.book; Afford, most primitive of
Surrey villages, with its curious iron.
work and meats; and, with scores more,
winsome old Cranleigh, where. at Bay
nards, Jane Roper. wife Of the younger
Sir Edward Bray, so long kept the head
OF her father, Inflated Sir Thomas More,
which was finally deposited in ST. Dus.
tans, Canterbury.
You will never heed the passing
hours u, anoat upon the Avon. you set
out In quest OF English villages within
the western shires. The matches OF the
hamleis lean everywhere along the
Avon almost to the rivers brink. You
will have no need for an inn. With
your yeoman companion you will be
welcomed everywhere at night among
the village peasantry. by and by you