Therefore, attiring myself carefully in glittering cloth of gold, and adorning every part of my person with deft and cunning hand, I made ready to go to the August festival, appareled like unto the goddesses seen by Paris in the vale of Ida.

St Bernard loved the valleys as St Benedict the hills, and as St Bernard was the refounder of the Cistercian Order to which Beaulieu belonged, it, like Waverley, Tintern, Netley, and a hundred others in England, was set in one of those delicious vales in which I think England is richer than any other country, and which here, in England of my heart, seem to demand rather our worship than our praise.

Down in a vale with pine and cypress clad, Refreshed with gentle winds, and brown with shade, The chaste Diana's private haunt, there stood Full in the centre of the darksome wood A spacious grotto, all around o'ergrown 20 With hoary moss, and arched with pumice-stone.

So after one day's halt he breaks up his camp at Egbert's Stone and marches to Aeglea, now called Clay hill, an important height, commanding the vale to the north of Westbury, which the Danish army were now occupying.

No sound is uttered,but a deep And solemn harmony pervades The hollow vale from steep to steep, And penetrates the glades.

We crawled through a briery place to where a gap opened to the vale on our left.

He had telephoned from Vale for a car to meet him.

Nor whence I came, or why, Nor can I guess what happiness Or strange, new world may lie Beyond the vale through which I sail, Beneath another sky;

Shepherd Fennel had married well, his wife being a dairyman's daughter from a vale at a distance, who brought fifty guineas in her pocketand kept them there, till they should be required for ministering to the needs of a coming family.

In the vale below 'Neath his footsteps spring the flowers, And the meadow In his breath finds life.

"Be thine to pour these vales along Some artless Shepherd's evening song; While Night's sweet bird, from yon high spray 90 Responsive, listens to his lay.

Between the branches of the trees, I now and then caught a glimpse of the spires of the church and buildings, encompassed by extensive orchards and groves, and open vales between, varied by vineyards.

These hills and peaceful vales among We rag'd more fiercely than the pest; Myself the deadly poison did to thousands give; They pined away, I yet must live To hear the reckless murderers blest.

And the two swing up the street, and out of the town, along the vale toward Trebooze.

Leaving Terni before day, we drove up the long vale towards Narni.

A soft gray under-roof of cloud slid on before a soft west wind, and here and there a stray gleam of sunlight shot into the vale across the purple mountain-tops, and awoke into busy life the denizens of the water, already quickened by the mysterious electric influences of the last night's thunder-shower.

Between eight and nine in the evening we came to the edge bounding that part of the Vale by which it is approached, in the direction we had taken.

Gigantic oaks begin to clothe the stony hillsides, and little by little a fertile mountain district of chestnut-woods and vineyards expands before our eyes, equal in charm to those aërial hills and vales above Pontremoli.

With startled toss Of antlers, down the slope it fled, to cross The open vale before him ...

The moon shone most beautifully, throwing her mantle of light all abroad over the blue arch of heaven, the gently flowing river, and the woods and vales around us.