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Updated: June 5, 2025
They took no heed to flying rabbits or fluttering fritillaries, and all that Turkey said of geology was utterly unquotable. "Are we going to Clovelly?" he puffed at last, and they flung themselves down on the short, springy turf between the drone of the sea below and the light summer wind among the inland trees.
It may be so; but he carries us back to "wet, bird-haunted English lawns;" like him "we know what white and purple fritillaries the grassy harvest of the river yields," with him we try to practise resignation, and to give ourselves over to that spirit "Whose purpose is not missed, While life endures, while things subsist." Mr.
Forgive and forget!" repeated Mary quickly and recklessly, letting her eyes wander from her own clasped hands to Eve's bouquet of delicate, scentless fritillaries, which lay neglected where it had fallen on the floor between their feet. "How easy it sounds! is perhaps and yet I have not so much to forget or to be forgiven!"
And that evening when they two were walking together in the twilight by the quiet river, gathering cowslips and fritillaries, he told her of his good prospects, and how a young lord, who made much of him, and treated him as a friend and an equal, though he was but a Servitor and was used to sit in his room talking with him long after the quadrangle was quiet, and the fast men had reeled off to their drunken slumbers had only three days before promised him a living of 300L. a-year, as soon as he should take his priest's orders.
Kubla Khan would have found a palace to his desire in the gardens of Laud, or where Cherwell, "meandering with a mazy motion," stirs the green weeds, and flashes from the mill-wheel, and flows to the Isis through meadows white and purple with fritillaries. "And here are gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossoms many an incense-bearing tree";
The way thither is long, and many things are to happen to many people; but little happens to him except the wheeling of the years. A telegram was handed to her as she came in from the garden, her broad- brimmed straw hat in her hand, and a bunch of fritillaries nodding in her blouse. That dates and places her at once: the time was April, and she was fond of curious flowers.
The illuminations at the Prince of Wales's marriage, where like other people he found "the crowd very good-humoured," are noted; and the beginning of Thyrsis where and while the fritillaries blow. His object, he says, "is not so much to give a literary history of Heine's work as to mark his place in modern European letters, and the special tendency and significance of what he did."
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