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Edward Thomas. The South Country
The South Country
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE SOUTH COUNTRY
CHAPTER II. THE END OF WINTER—SUFFOLK—HAMPSHIRE
SUFFOLK
HAMPSHIRE
CHAPTER III. SPRING—HAMPSHIRE—KENT—SURREY
KENT, SURREY AND HAMPSHIRE
HAMPSHIRE
KENT
SURREY
CHAPTER IV. AN ADVENTURER
CHAPTER V. SUSSEX
CHAPTER VI. A RETURN TO NATURE
CHAPTER VII. A RAILWAY CARRIAGE—SURREY—SUSSEX
SURREY
SUSSEX
CHAPTER VIII. JUNE—HAMPSHIRE—THE GOLDEN AGE—TRAHERNE
HAMPSHIRE
CHAPTER IX. HISTORY AND THE PARISH—HAMPSHIRE—CORNWALL
CORNWALL
CHAPTER X. SUMMER—SUSSEX
CHAPTER XI. HAMPSHIRE—AN UMBRELLA MAN
CHAPTER XII. CHILDREN OF EARTH—HAMPSHIRE AND SUSSEX
CHAPTER XIII. AUGUST—GOING WEST—HAMPSHIRE AND WILTSHIRE
CHAPTER XIV. AN OLD HOUSE AND A BOOK—WILTSHIRE
CHAPTER XV. AN OUTCAST—WILTSHIRE
CHAPTER XVI. THE END OF SUMMER—KENT—BERKSHIRE—HAMPSHIRE—SUSSEX—THE FAIR
HAMPSHIRE
INDEX
Footnote
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Edward Thomas
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Then on every hand the gentle willow wrens flit and sing in the purple ash blossoms. The martins, the swallows, have each a day. One day, too, is the magpie’s: for he sits low near his mate in a thicket and chatters not aloud but low and tenderly, almost like the sedgewarbler, adding a faint plaintive note like the bullfinch’s, and fragments as of the linnet’s song, and chirrupings; disturbed, he flies away with chatter as hoarse as ever.
The rooks reign several days. They have a colony in a compact small oval beech wood that stands in a hollow amidst dry grey ploughland; and from the foxy-red summits of the trees, in the most genial hot day, their cawings are loud and mellow and warm as if they were the earth’s own voice; and all the while the dew is sliding along the branches, dropping into other drops or to the ground as the birds flutter at their nests, and from time to time one triple drop catches the sun and throbs where it hangs like Hesperus among the small stars.
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