It faces west, and round the back and sides
High beeches, bending, hang a veil of boughs,
And sweep against the roof. Wild honeysucks
Climb on the walls, and seem to sprout a wish
(If we may fancy wish of trees and plants)
To overtop the apple-trees hard by.
- From DOMICILIUM by Thomas Hardy -
~ HARDY'S COTTAGE, DORSET ~
Birthplace of the novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) |