6/11/2023 0 Comments Joseph farrago![]() I saw then, sitting beyond the table, a tall man and spare, well on in years, vigorous his eyes were deep set in his head they were full of travel and of sadness his hair was of the colour of steel it was curled and plentiful, and on his chin was a strong, full beard, as grey and stiff as the hair of his head. I turned round, and I was angry, for there had been no one with me when I had entered upon this reverie, and I had thought myself alone. When I had said this the deeper voice of an older man answered:Īnd since I am going to that same place, let us journey there together. Then I hit the table there with my hand, and as though there were no duty nor no engagements in the world, and I spoke out loud (for I thought myself alone). Get up and go back to your own place if only for one day for you have this great chance that you are already upon the soil of your own county, and that Kent is a mile or two behind.Īs I said these things to myself I felt as that man felt of whom everybody has read in Homer with an answering heart: that he longed as he journeyed to see once more the smoke going up from his own land, and after that to die. Consider how many years it is since you saw your home, and for how short a time, perhaps, its perfection will remain. What you are doing is not worth while, and nothing is worth while on this unhappy earth except the fulfillment of a man’s desire. Not ever, in a better time, when I had seen it of reality and before my own eyes living, had that good picture stood so plain and even the colours of it were more vivid than they commonly are in our English air but because it was a vision there was no sound, nor could I even hear the rustling of the leaves, though I saw the breeze gusty on the water-meadow banks, and ruffling up a force against the stream. But all the while your life runs past you like a river, and the things that are of moment to men you do not heed at all.Īs I thought this kind of thing and still drank up that port, the woods that overhang the reaches of my river came back to me so clearly that for the sake of them, and to enjoy their beauty, I put my hand in front of my eyes, and I saw with every delicate appeal that one’s own woods can offer, the steep bank over Stoke, the valley, the high ridge which hides a man from Arundel, and Arun turning and hurrying below. And you will cross the sea and earn your money, and you will come back and spend more than you have earned. ![]() And I said to myself, inside my own mind: What are you doing? You are upon some business that takes you far, not even for ambition or for adventure, but only to earn. Nine years ago, as I was sitting in the George at Robertsbridge, ¹ drinking that port of theirs and staring at the fire, there arose in me a multitude of thoughts through which at last came floating a vision of the woods of home and of another place-the lake where the Arun rises. He wrote historical biographies and numerous travel works, including The Path to Rome (1902). His widely sold Cautionary Tales for Children included "Jim, who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion" and "Matilda, who told lies and was burned to death". Belloc's writings encompassed religious poetry and comic verse for children. George Bernard Shaw, a friend and frequent debate opponent of both Belloc and Chesterton, dubbed the pair the "Chesterbelloc". ![]() He was also a close friend and collaborator of G. Belloc was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds. From 1906 to 1910, he served as one of the few openly Catholic members of the British Parliament. While attending Oxford, he served as President of the Oxford Union. Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902 while retaining his French citizenship. His Catholic faith had a strong effect on his works. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was a Franco-English writer and historian of the early twentieth century. ![]()
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