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Bywell seems to be a lovely patch of Arcadia, preserved to the modern world amid all the industrial changes that have transformed some of the fairest scenes in Northumberland into black and hideous wastes – the retreat of the old doomed divinities of wood and fountain banished from the native haunts. From this ‘Pleasing land of drowsy head’ with its, may the mining engineer the railway contractor and the speculative builder long be kept aloof and may poets and covers of nature for many years to come meditate and dream the shadow of ‘Castle of Indolence’ and painters transfer to canvas the beauty of its Ivy mantled walls. |
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