A JOURNAL KEPT IN THE COUNTRY. 265 



swallows break from the little green horizon and try 

 the world where 



" hills enow, and far-resounding seas, 

 Pour out their shades and deeps " 



and so come to learn the true worth of those country 

 ways if country there be left from London's 

 tentacles which I have tried in some sort to set 

 before you. 



