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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 181

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167 THE SEVERN VALLEY. pearls their channel sides^ where blue-bells lift their graceful heads^ and forget-me-nots dot the pale green carpet; they leap from ledge to ledge, dance on little plat- … motion of its tail from which it THE REED-SPARROW. derives its name^ and among the tufted grass close by^ rudely built of stubble and thinly lined with horse-hair^ may be its nest. But the great minstrel of these dingles is the night- ingale. It has been said^ by those who knew him not, that his…

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