Excerpt from At the Sign of the Lion: And Other Essays From the Books of Hilaire Belloc
Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground.
A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stones.
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