SONNET ON THE PROJECTED KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY. Is then no nook of English ground secure Mid his paternal fields at random thrown? Rydal Mount, October 12th, 1844. The degree and kind of attachment which many of the yeomanry feel to their small inheritances can scarcely be over-rated. Near the house of one of them stands a magnificent tree, which a neighbour of the owner advised him to fell for profit's sake. Fell it,' exclaimed the yeoman, 'I had rather fall on my knees and worship it.' It happens, I believe, that the intended railway would pass through this little property, and I hope that an apology for the answer will not be thought necessary by one who enters into the strength of the feeling. W. W. |