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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: COUNTRY COURTSHIP. Oh, rural love as spotless as the dove's, No wealth gives fuel to a borrowed flame, To prompt the shepherd where to choose his loves, And go a forger of that sacred name: Both hearts in unison have beat the same. John Clare's Village Minstrel. Love in the country is very often only a wild flower of chance growth; it springs up here and there almost unaware, ?sometimes is found by a woodside, in a green lane, or by a garden-gate. John is going to fetch up his horses at the same time that Mary sets out to milk her cows, and they very naturally join in conversation. It may at first only begin with a cold good morning. But then, hang those cows they play such freaks, and will often run away without giving a moment's warning: then John, of course, runsafter them, and Mary thanks him for assisting her. Love is a very Proteus, and has before now come in the shape of a gad-fly, ?has first spoken in the creak of a gate, ?blushed while being helped up with a basket of butter, ? sprung up with a swarm of bees, or appeared in the shape of a stray lamb. In a large farm-house, too, there are nearly as many lads as lasses employed as servants; and in summer they all work together in the fields, ?eat and drink at the same table when at home, and thus have every opportunity of studying each other's temper. This I hold is a much safer way to choose a wife than mere chance wooing, where rniss makes up herself beforehand to be very shy and very modest, and the youth can hardly say boh to a goose ?as the old country wives have it. But when they live in place together for a year or two, what at first is affected, gradually gives place to reality. They appear to each other what they will be after marriage; and I have known them jog together to the market-tow...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217986656 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021798665X |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 226 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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