England and Yesterday

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>SHROPSHIRE LANDSCAPE.</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Vague, in a silver sheen</div> <div class="verse">Rayed from their armour green,</div> <div class="verse">Some aged limes upstand;</div> <div class="verse">Nigh fields kindle and shine:</div> <div class="verse">Beauty incarnadine!</div> <div class="verse">What thrill of what Uranian wine</div> <div class="verse">So flushed the placid land?</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">All tints of a broken wave</div> <div class="verse">Light the leafy architrave,</div> <div class="verse">Far up the cloudy spring;</div> <div class="verse">And the ploughed soil ruddier glows</div> <div class="verse">Than the ruby or the rose,</div> <div class="verse">Or the moon, when the harvest goes</div> <div class="verse">Beneath her blazing wing.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">Trees keep the broad outpost;</div> <div class="verse">Dusk, by their dusky host,</div> <div class="verse">Long-loved Severn glides.</div> <div class="verse">Thence, towards the hilly south,</div> <div class="verse">Like a queen, battle-wroth,</div> <div class="verse">Upon a vermeil saddle-cloth,</div> <div class="verse">The three-spired city rides.</div> </div></div> </div> <hr> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />