village-wards

Updated: May 27, 2025

Indeed, if any man would experience the full ecstasy of being alive the joi de vivre as the French have it let him go out into the early morning, when the sun is young, and look about him with a seeing eye. So, in a little while, with the golden song of a blackbird in my ears, I turned village-wards, very hungry, yet, nevertheless, content.

Jeffery Farnol - The Broad Highway