COUNTRY LANES
Thoughts about England's Country Lanes and Villages by various Writers and Poets
Mary Russell Mitford.
'How Beautiful The Lane Is Today.'
How beautiful the lane is today, decorated with a thousand colours. The brown road, and the rich verdure that borders it, strewed with the pale yellow leaves of the elm, just beginning to fall; hedgerows glowing with long wreaths of the bramble in every variety of purplish red; and overhead the unchanged green of the fir, contrasting with the spotted sycamore, the tawny beech, and the dry sere leaves of the oak, which rustle as the light wind passes through them; a few common hardy yellow flowers still blowing in spite of the season, and ruddy berries glowing through all. How very beautiful is the lane!
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