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IN PURSUIT OF SPRING
PADDINGTON CANAL.
“So far the life of men moving to and fro across the bridges was likethe old life that I knew, though down below upon the sparklingwaters many birds were alighting, or were already seated likewondrous blossoms upon the bulwarks of a barge painted in parrotcolours red and green.”
IN PURSUIT OF
SPRING
BY
EDWARD THOMAS
THOMAS NELSON AND SONS
LONDON, EDINBURGH, DUBLIN
AND NEW YORK.
CONTENTS.
| I. | In Search of Spring | 9 |
| II. | The Start: London to Guildford | 34 |
| III. | Guildford to Dunbridge | 76 |
| IV. | From Dunbridge over Salisbury Plain | 128 |
| V. | Three Wessex Poets | 180 |
| VI. | The Avon, the Biss, the Frome | 199 |
| VII. | Trowbridge to Shepton Mallet | 216 |
| VIII. | Shepton Mallet to Bridgwater | 235 |
| IX. | Bridgwater to the Sea | 265 |
| X. | The Grave of Winter | 290 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
From Drawings by Ernest Hazelhurst.
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