The Green Alleys
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Green Alleys: A Comedy In Southern Kent are far-flung plains of the Weald that tend to seaward. On a summer day they were basking under July sunshine, while their grass-lands stretched for miles under dancing heat and a thousand mowers purred in tho heart of them. The russet of the ripe meadows and the silver of tho mown hay were broken by green of many hop-gardens, whose foliage reflected the light, so that the hops, heavy and dark under grey skies, were now full of a joyous radiance. Across the great plain swept also woodlands, that belted in the middle distance, with irregular passages of summer oak and elm, bossy and massive. Ridge upon ridge the trees retreated gradually until they and the pastures and tilth between were reduced and huddled together by distance, and their patterns obscured in the milky azure of summer air. No salient features marked the horizon. Level as the sea, and pure as an opal to the sky edge it sank away, shot with delicate shadow of forests, broken only by spire or tower, by the cowls of hop-oasts, or the head of a windmill, sweeping its wide pinions against the blue. Here, in this tender distance of many colours, was contrast for the splendour of the meadows and spinneys, the cattle and snowy, new-shorn sheep of every foreground. It is a pastoral land, simple and impressive - a land of old custom and old habitations. In dignity of line and colour, depending not at all on size for their distinction, the farmsteads and hamlets stand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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