Sir Walter Raleigh-On English Valor "Passions are likened best to floods." Edmund Spenser-Stanzas from Epi- Illustrations PAGE Frontispiece Portrait of Benjamin Franklin Northern Woods in Autumn "That time of year When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs where late the sweet birds sang." Choir Stalls in Westminster Abbey "Oft let me range the gloomy aisles alone, Sad luxury to vulgar minds un- Twickenham Ferry "Ahoy! and Oho! and it's who's for the ferry?" Wordsworth's Home, Rydal Mount "Blest with rare beauty, set in deep est calm, Looking upon still waters, whose expanse Might tranquilize all thought." 22 60 82 · 122 Illustrations The Palace Beautiful (Pilgrim's Progress) "He lifted up his eyes, and behold there was a very stately palace be- Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer "loved Bard! whose spirit often dwelt In the clear land of vision O Great Precursor, genuine morn- Canterbury Cathedral, the shrine to which "from every shire's ende Of Engelond, to Canterbury they wende The hooly blisful martir for to seke That hem hath holpen when that Portrait of Ben Jonson "The Mountain where thy Muse's feet made warm Those lawns that revelled with her dance divine PAGE 158 182 222 Shines yet with fire as it was wont From tossing torches round the "The Poet-Apostle of the English The River of the Water of Life (Pilgrim's "Here, as you see, are delicate waters, ... pleasant meadows, dainty flowers, |