202 IN A GLOUCESTERSHIRE GARDEN 



I will conclude by going back again to our own 

 beautiful wild climber, the traveller's joy, that I may 

 quote Bishop Mant's address to the flower: — 



' The traveller's joy ! 

 Most beauteous when its flowers assume 

 Their autumn form of feathery plume — 

 The traveller's joy ! name well bestowed 

 On that wild plant, which by the road 

 Of Southern England, to adorn 

 Fails not the hedge of prickly thorn, 

 Or, wilding rose-bush apt to creep 

 O'er the dry limestone's craggy steep ; 

 There still a gay companion near 

 To the wayfaring traveller.' 



