Cold and grey They slept in the way, And shrank from the ray Of the chariot East: But now they are gone, And the bounding light Leaps thro' the bars Of doubtful dawn; Blinding the stars, And blessing the sight; Shedding delight On all below; Glimmering fields, And wakening wealds, And rising lark, And meadows dark, And idle rills, And labouring mills, And far-distant hills Of the fawn and the doe.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
These are North Wales, Cornwall and Devonshire, the wealds of Sussex and Kent, Lincolnshire, and the district of Craven.
"The Ethnology of the British Islands"
Robert Gordon Latham