A Singer from the Sea

A Singer from the Sea

From Padstow Point to Lundy Race is one of the wildest and grandest portions of the Cornish coast, and on it there is always somewhere a tossing sea, a stiff breeze above, and a sucking tide below. Great cliffs hundreds of feet high guard it, and from the top of them the land rolls 2 away in long ridges, brown and bare. These wild and rocky moors, full of pagan altars, stone crosses, and memorials of the Jew, the Phnician, and the Cornu-British, are the land of our childhoods fairy-folkthe home of Blunderbore and of Jack the Giant Killer, and the far grander But it is the Undercliff which has the perennial charm for humanity, for all along its sloping face there are bewildering hummocks and hollows, checkered with purple rocks and elder-trees. Narrow footpaths curve in and out and up and down among the fields and farms, the orchards and the glimmering glades, and there the foxgloves grow so tall that they lift their dappled bells level with the eyes. Further down are queer, quiet towns, hundreds of years old, squeezed into the mouths of deep valleysvalleys full of delicate ferns and small wild roses and the white heath, a flower peculiar to the locality. And still loweron the very shingleare the amphibious-looking cottages of the fishermen. They are surrounded by nets and boats and lobster-pots. Noisy children paddle in the flowing tide, and large, brown, handsome women sit on the door-steps knitting the blue guernsey shirts and stockings which their husbands wear. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 29909
Author: Barr, Amelia E.
Release Date: Sep 4, 2009
Format: eBook
Language: English