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Post by bridgeplayer on Oct 13, 2020 16:04:47 GMT
For, here are woods, hills smooth and warm ...
And ivy-clad houses!
Street View image please.
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Post by Walter_V_R on Oct 13, 2020 19:15:06 GMT
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Post by krenek on Oct 13, 2020 20:22:37 GMT
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Post by lockhopper on Oct 15, 2020 9:01:25 GMT
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Post by hhgygy on Oct 15, 2020 11:31:10 GMT
Nice puzzle, took some time to find it  |
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Post by bridgeplayer on Oct 15, 2020 17:35:26 GMT
A clue for those who may still be searching: I assume you found the poem from which I quoted a line, and the name of the locality where the woods and the hills are. It’s a little different from the official (Welsh) name. |
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Post by CuriousJM on Oct 16, 2020 5:15:14 GMT
Thanks for the clue! Silly  of me I should have read the full poem.  |
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Post by bridgeplayer on Jan 7, 2021 18:45:31 GMT
Well done all. In Wordsworth’s poem Anecdote for Fathers, a father asks his five year old son why he’d rather be “On Kilve's smooth shore, by the green sea” than “here at Liswyn farm”:
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“Why, this is strange,” said I;
“For, here are woods, hills smooth and warm:
There surely must some reason be
Why you would change sweet Liswyn farm
For Kilve by the green sea.”
Little Edward is tongue-tied and “blushed with shame”. Then he looks up and, on a roof, sees a glittering, gilded weather-vane. Now he improvises a reply: “At Kilve there was no weather-cock; / And that's the reason why.” Only grown-ups think they need a clearcut reason for everything.
The biggest problem was to find out that Liswyn is now known as Llyswen. It’s a small village on the west bank of the river Wye in Wales, 8 miles from Brecon. Once you’re there, it is not hard to find the ivied house, the Griffin Inn.
Llyswen, Wales - 52.0333°N, 3.2659°W |
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of me I should have read the full poem.
