“Pleasant, summer, and slow long day;
Also pleasant to pass out of chastisement
Pleasant, the blossoms on the tops of the pear-trees;
Also pleasant, friendship with the Creator.”
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Pleasant Things of Taliesin
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The Homes of England http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hemans/records/homes.html, st. 1 (1828).
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