“O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm
Of green days telling with a quiet beat.”
Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863–1944) British writer and literary critic
Poem Ode upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon, in Poems and Ballads, 1896
“[H]is heart always beat for the honour of England.”
Source: Speaking of Viscount Palmerston at the Guildhall, London, 9 November 1865, as reported in The Times, 10 November 1865, p. 7
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