The Visions of England / Lyrics on leading men and events in English History

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est of earth an

ck-ridge rends

cloudy wrath an

flood of leve

blended melo

ong seawar

mead, great Rive

not know:-but He, w

s magnificent Idylls of the King,-form the visionary links in our history between the decline of the Roman power and the earlier days of the Saxon conquest. St. 9 Villagedom; Angles and Saxons seem at first to have burned the larger towns of the Romanized Britons and left them deserted, in favour of village-life. St. 11 Village-moot: Held on a little hill or round a sacred tree: 'the ealde

ders are referred to Mr. J. R. Green's History, and to Mr. T. Wright

ST AND

SEN

one with Nature!

fronts

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ath the hi

up a deep, d

eavy chariot-wh

here oth

byss of air, a

irds' ca

d with well-poised

-fringed reef se

inel the

ch jutting cape,

en-beard

ants guard th

with Nature

mal man

eager trader

ong Bisca

venturous from

n, with their

e, fig,

nburnt wine, fl

an azur

d, and agate-

mber-knobs the

and silv

en swords, or

, arm'd f

miners, wonder

ore; nor Ale

fair Hel

t how Peleus'

rd the sea

f still-unco

as hospitable and civilized. They mined tin, which was bought by traders and carried through Gaul to the south-e

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