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English ways: a visitor's view. (Editorial)

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From: The Christian Century
Date: 19931027
Author:Wall, James M.

When Robert Browning wrote, "O to be in England, now that April's there" and envisioned the "tiny leaf" and "the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf," he was expressing a longing to be "in England - now!" The visitor who travels not in April but in October sees the autumnal colors and the end of summer, and also the homeless, and the deranged man who sits by the pond across from Buckingham Palace and shouts "Shut up!" to passersby.

What can one do in encountering "this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England" but resurrect all those bits and pieces of poetry ...

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