I visualized the whole scene, the entire harmonious life; I was with him from morn till eve always in that same green country with the same sky, cloudy or serene, above me; in the rustic village, at the small church with a thatched roof where the daws nested in the belfry, and the children played and shouted among the gravestones in the churchyard; in woods and green and ploughed fields and the deep lanes-with him and his fellow-toilers, and the animals, domestic and wild, regarding their life and actions from day to day through all the vicissitudes of the year.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
Yonder, cliff-nested-are dwellings of mortals, There pasture the lambs in sweet blossoming meadows- There couch the herds in the cool deepening shadows- There roar the Aragua's blue sparkling waters, And lurketh the bandit safe hid in lone caverns, Where Terek, wild sporting, is cutting the azure!
"Russian Lyrics"
Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
We crept into it out of the storm and nested in warm furs.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook