# Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2

Author: Wilson, John, 1785-1854

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19938

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Recreations+of+Christopher+North%2C+Volume+2+Wilson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Art thou beautiful, as of old, O wild, moorland, sylvan, and pastoral Parish! the Paradise in which our spirit dwelt beneath the glorious dawning of life--can it be, beloved world of boyhood, that thou art indeed beautiful as of old? Though round and round thy boundaries in half an hour could fly the flapping dove--though the martens, wheeling to and fro that ivied and wall-flowered ruin of a Castle, central in its own domain, seem in their more distant flight to glance their crescent wings over a vale rejoicing apart in another kirk-spire, yet how rich in streams, and rivulets, and rills, each with its own peculiar murmur--art Thou with thy bold bleak exposure, sloping upwards in ever lu...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/recreations-of-christopher-north-volume-2-19938/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/recreations-of-christopher-north-volume-2-19938/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/recreations-of-christopher-north-volume-2-19938/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/recreations-of-christopher-north-volume-2-19938/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/recreations-of-christopher-north-volume-2-19938/chapters/4/index.md)