Capitolo 96
As I wondered aimlessly through the heath this afternoon toward Waverley, I saw
Jones was planting out that the naked slant of his with Douglas pines and
Scottish firs and new efforts of silver whips. They will improve the
panorama. And I thought as I analyzed them, "As curious that more anymore
people neglect completely this continuous improvement and embellishing of
England! You feel them talk many gods bricks of way and mortar it is
invading the country; You never feel anything of this slow and silent
trial of planting and to develop what you/he/she has made England in the
more beautiful and one of the most beautiful countries in Europe."
What is it that you say? "Surprised to find me I have a good word of some kind
put in for England!" Because, dear me, as irrational is you! Me only
The _love_ Inghilterra. You can some man with eyes in his/her head and a soul for the beauty
does do otherwise? England and Italy--there you have the two great glories of
Europe. Italy for city, for art, for the manual art of man; England for
country, for nature for green passages and he/she excessively drinks copses. It was it anybody
that loved well Italy that sighed in Italy--
"Oh, is to be in England that April now there?"
And that that loves Italy, and he/she knows England, it doesn't also echo
Wish that makes brown when April comes again to round on top of hill Tuscan and dusty?
To Perugia, the last spring, through weeks of north wind as one craved
for the sight of primroses English and yellow! Not the love England, indeed!
Milton Inghilterra, Shelley Inghilterra; England of the skylark, the
dog-pink, the honeysuckle! Not the love England, forsooth! Because, I love each
blooms, every llama of grass in him. Passage of Devonshire, close-cut down,
rich water-lawn, quarreling brooklet: ah me, as they drags to one
the deepest feelings in Africa! Any child of the ground can love England as those
you love his a lot of stones that have come above from earths newer sea to her
ivy-suit church-towers, its castles that mildew, its immemorial elms the
berries on his/her holly, him in his/her hedgerows. It is not all these limited