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A Little English Gallery

Note 28 — II HENRY VAUGHAN 1621-1695

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Vaughan had a relish for damp weather, the thing which makes the loveliness of the British isles, and which the ungrateful islanders are prone to revile. He never passes a sheet of water without looking upward for the forming cloud:

“That drowsy lake From her faint bosom breathed thee!”

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