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Title: Our own islands; an elementary study in geography
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Mackinder, Halford John
Subjects: Great Britain -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, G. Philip
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, and northward to the Scottishborder, in order that the whole country mightprepare for invasion. Lord Macaulay wrote a poem about the Armadain which he described how the beacons sent for-ward the message and roused England. Let usread it and find on the map as many as we can ofthe places which he mentions. You have alreadyheard of most of them in previous chapters. Niglit sank upon the dusky beach, xA.nd on llie purple sea,Such night in England neer hath been Nor eer again shall be.From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, From Lynn to Milford Bay,That time of slumber was as briglit And busy as the day ;For swift to east and swift to west The ghastly war-flame spread,High on St. Michaels mount it shone, It shone on Beachy Head.Far on the deep the Spaniard saw Along each southern shire,Cape beyond cape, in endless range, Those twinkling points of fire.The fisher left his skiff to rock On Tamars glittering waves :Tiie rugged miners poured to wai- From Mendips sunless oaves. 276 OUR OWN ISLANDS
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Fig. 119.—The Beacons. Oer Longleats towers, oer Cranbournes oaks. The fiery herald Hew :And roused tlie shepherds of Stonelieiige, Tlie rangers of Beaulieu. THE BEACONS 277 Right sharp and quick the bells all night Rang out from Bristol town,And eer the day three hundred horse Had met on Clifton Down.The sentinel on Whitehall Gate Looked forth into the night,And saw oerhanging Richmond Hill The streak of blood-red light.And eastward straight from wild Blackheath The war-like errand went,And roused in many an ancient hall The gallant squires of Kent.Southward from Surreys pleasant hills Flew those bright couriers forth ;High on black Hampsteads swarthy moor They started for the north ;And on and on, without a pause, Untired they bounded still;All night from tower to tower they sprang,^ They sprang from hill to hill;Til) the proud Peak unfurled the flag Oer Darwins rocky dales.Till like volcanoes flared to heaven The stormy hills of Wales ;Till twelve fair counties saw the blaze On M

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