Capitolo 1
SCIENCE IN ARCADY
FROM
CONCESSION ALLEN
LONDON:
LAWRENCE & BULLEN,
16, Henrietta Strada, COVENT Garden W.C. 1892.
To grant Richard,
THANKFUL _IN RICONOSCIMENTO OF SOME KIND OFFICES._
Uncle's regard.
CONTAINED.
PAGE
MY ISLANDS 1
Education 21 tropical
On you Haul her Some Wind 40
A Desert Fruit 56
Beautiful Survey 71
Life 90 tall
Friends 105 eight-that it has legs
You cover with mud 123
The GREENWOOD Albero 140
You fish As it Produces 157
A County 177 English
The Bronze Ax 212
The island Of RUIM 231
A Hill-top Fortitude 250
A Persistent the Nationality 266
Pitchers È CHESTERS 274
PREFACE.
These compositions treat with Science in Arcady to a large extent. 'My Tis
native country: for me they are not of those that 'praises the busy city.' On
the contrary one, in the words of the great poet to that you/he/she has departed as soon as
connects Milton and Shelley in a place of collateral and tall glory, me 'the love to
bar against him still', with the bitterness of a naturalist. For the city it is
always dead and lifeless. There is who admire him, they says--poor
myopic creatures--because, forsooth, 'there is there so a lot of life.'
Then a lot of life, indeed! Any grass in the roads; any flowers in the passages;
any coleopters or butterflies on the floorings of stone blunted! Brick and mortar
you/he/she has killed out every life on square miles of Middlesex. For me, me
you love better the densely-peopled the fields that this human desert, this
beflagged and macadamised the artificial loneliness. The country abounds with
the life on every hand; thousand different plants and flowers in the
studded lawns of sequins; thousand various inhabitants of pond, and it airs, and
heath and copses. Their ways are without end. They attract far me to Them more
with their endless difference that the grey ones and dark places of meeting of the