The Severn valley: a series of sketches, descriptive and pictorial, of the course of the Severn: containing notices of its topographical, industrial, and geological features; with glances at its historical and legendary associations (1862)
Randall, John, 1810-1910 · London, J. S. Virtue · leaf 134
120 THE SEVERN VALLEY. muring of a neighbouring ford. The gloomy night is gathering fast/^ and stars wink out above the wooded hills. The moon^ we know^ by the softening light upon the highest trees^ has risen ; and faint^ and pale^ half clear, half obscure,, as though afraid to meet her rivals… … BITILDWAS ABBEY. light upon the hills. Above the heights of Benthall Edge she takes her place^, and the features of the land- scape one by one aie softly shadowed forth — excepting where a soft and fleecy vapour creeps along the fields and valley sides^ rendering them indistinct. How beautiful is…
Severn River Valley (Wales and England) -- Description and travel
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