MAKE A MEME View Large Image Devonshire coast (Page 305) (5980718199).jpg DAMAGE FARM 305 <br> At lengtli patches of blue sky as brightly and <br> purely blue as if it had never been sullied by a cloud <br> began to open and grow and coalesce until the storm <br> was ...
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Keywords: A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast (Page 305) (5980718199).jpg DAMAGE FARM 305 <br> At lengtli patches of blue sky as brightly and <br> purely blue as if it had never been sullied by a cloud <br> began to open and grow and coalesce until the storm <br> was fairly put to the rout and fled from the aerial <br> field <br> I ventured to proceed On the steep road up from <br> the cove the traces of the showier were still strong <br> The rain ran in gutters and ruts and hung in drops <br> like thousands of diamonds from the brambles and <br> cornels of the hedges The lovely white bindweed <br> presented its beautiful trumpet-blossoms to the sun <br> as smilingly as though not a drop had fallen on them <br> The fields however gave sadder proofs of the vio- <br> lence of the storm ; for large breadths of the brown <br> wheat more than ready for the sickle were beaten <br> down and laid by the rain ; and the precious grains <br> shed out w ere lying on the sodden earth by handfuls <br> Thus I came to a farm bearing the inauspicious <br> name of Damage Streams of muddy water covered <br> with brown froth poured across the road; the sky <br> looks black again ; the clouds have rallied and are <br> mustering to renew the assault; they gain ground <br> upon the azure and now they have fairly overpowered <br> it An archway of the farm-buildings offers a kindly <br> shelter and I dismount despite the growlings of a <br> suspicious mastiff the Cerberus of the place The <br> view to sea-ward over Bull Point and the neigh- <br> bouring head-lands is magnificiently grand almost <br> worth the disappointment and the wetting to behold <br> A dark dim veil of mist passes over the sea gradually <br> enveloping and concealing every thing and spreads <br> away to leeward The rain descends first in great 29378871 93094 42528 Page 305 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/29378871 1853 10 5962/bhl title 42528 Gosse Philip Henry; Hullmandel Walton Biodiversity Heritage Library A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast Information field Flickr tags and travel Devon England Great Britain Marine animals Smithsonian Institution Libraries SIL bhl page 29378871 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/29378871 taxonomy binomial Campanularia volubilis devon england great britain sil taxonomy binomial campanularia volubilis Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2011-07-27 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/5980718199 2015-09-11 05 56 54 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Campanularia volubilis A naturalist's rambles on the Devonshire coast Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script
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