Laura Creichton (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Laura Creichton Henry the Eighth, bluff King Hal, and Catharine of Aragon went a-maying upon Shooters' Hill. To-day the may-trees are incorporated with trim hedges, urban lawns. But for all that, they are still there, flowing over the top of the hill, cropping up amid the crowded villas and model dwellings which cluster about the foot of it, petering out, tamed and enclosed, along the road to Black-neath, all amid the gardens of St. John's Park, running a little, even, into Plumstead, but free at last, altogether wild and free, adown the slopes of Greenwich Park: great posies of rose-red and white, brilliant and artless, intertwined with the sombre tapestry of Spanish chestnuts. Stand on the top of Shooters' Hill upon a sunny day in the latter end of May, or during the first week in June, and everywhere there is sheeted hawthorn, fruit-blossom, laburnum, lilac, great rounded masses of trees - sycamore and beech and elm, tight bouquets of gardens, pierced by slender steeples. Away to the south and the east are small, bright, green fields, while to the north and the west the wavering riband of the Thames - looping around the Isle of Dogs so that the masts of the ships seem to spring up along the streets - loses itself in that deepening bluish blur that is London, the whole overhung with a silvery sheen, half-smoke, half river-mist. London, London proper - blue haze of the early morning, or deep periwinkle-blue of noontide heat: the pillar of smoke by day, glowing, still smoky, gold and crimson at night, is of the very essence of the world, is, indeed, the world itself- an amazing blend. Her wandering sons and daughters, returning to her, swinging through her streets on the tops of busses, threading the traffic in taxis, feeling their ears beaten upon by the old familiar roar of sound, sniffing up the old familiar smells, exclaim that it is good to be home again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.