“Lovely the woods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales.”

—  Gerard Manley Hopkins

&quot; In the Valley of the Elwy http://www.bartleby.com/122/16.html&quot;, lines 9-10 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

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