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"The portal and the ruin'd battlements—"
In this country there are several of the fortresses or castles built by Stephen of Blois, in his contention for the kingdom, with the daughter of Henry the First, the empress Matilda. Some of these are now converted into farm houses.
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"Or night-jar, chasing fern-flies."
Dr. Aikin remarks, I believe, in his essay "On the Application of Natural History to the Purposes of Poetry," how many of our best poets have noticed the same circumstance, the hum of the Dor Beetle (Scarabœus stercorarius,) among the sounds heard by the evening wanderer. I remember only
