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    Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913
    Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913
    Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913
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    Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 - James Hooper

      Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration, by James Hooper

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration, by

      James Hooper, Illustrated by Catherine Maude Nichols

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      Title: Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration

      Norwich, July 5th, 1913

      Author: James Hooper

      Release Date: May 20, 2007 [eBook #21538]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOUVENIR OF THE GEORGE BORROW

      CELEBRATION***

      Transcribed from the 1913 Jarrold & Sons edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      SOUVENIR

      of the

      GEORGE BORROW

      CELEBRATION

      Norwich, July 5th, 1913

      by

      JAMES HOOPER

      prepared and published for

      the committee

      JARROLD & SONS

      publishers

      LONDON AND NORWICH

      2/6 net

      FOREWORD.

      The Committee are indebted to numerous Borrovians for the loan of Illustrations and Contributions of literary items to the text, to Miss C. M. Nichols, R.E., for her charming Pen Pictures of nooks and corners of Borrow’s old home in Willow Lane, the Rev. F. W. Orde Ward for his appreciative stanzas, and Mr. E. Peake for his Ode to the Flower, whilst special mention must be made of Mr. A. J. Munnings’ inspiring design of George Borrow and Petulengro overlooking the City of Norwich for the cover.

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      George Borrow.

      1

      Man of the Book, thou Pilgrim of the Road,

        The love of travel

      Drave thee on ever with pursuing goad;

      Trust was thy burning light, Truth was thy load—

        Sweet riddles for the weary to unravel,

            Within thy breast

            Glowed the pure fire of an Eternal Quest.

      2

      The Bible was thy chart, the open sky

        Thy roof and rafter

      Often, and thou didst learn night’s mystery;

      Learning some tale from each poor passer-by,

        Some gracious secret for the grand Hereafter.

            Master of lore

            Occult, and wanderer on the wildest shore.

      3

      What country was not trodden by thy feet,

        Nor bared its bosom

      And fragrance to the life it leapt to greet?

      From field and upland or where waters meet

        Was stolen, the virgin dew, the veilèd blossom.

            Its native tongue

            On stranger lips, in every climate hung.

      4

      Pursuer of shy paths, all hunted things

        All creatures lonely,

      Gypsy and fox and hawk with slanted wings;

      These drank with thee at the same cosmic springs,

        These were thy teachers and thy playmates only.

            Nature gave up

            To them and thee alike, her hidden cup.

      5

      Who brought its glory back to cloistered Wales,

        And wrung their treasure

      From sacred books and dim sequestered vales?

      Who found the gold in haunted heights and dales,

        And showed a wondering world its pride and pleasure?

            Divine and strong

            Stood out the altar, with its flame of song.

            6

      Thy bardlike power, the passion of thy thirst

        For something greater,

      Awoke old Cymric melodies the first;

      Till all the mountains into music burst,

        And their lost glory crowned the recreator.

            Outpoured as wine

            Thy magic words made every shade a shrine.

      7

      Priest of the portals into the Unknown,

        Taught by no college,

      And free of every fountain but thine own;

      A waif, an exile, by the breezes blown

        Hither and thither to fresh fields of knowledge,

            That giant form,

            Fearless, and still no moment, rode the storm.

      8

      From land to land a pilgrim, yet at home

        Where’er thy journey

      Thou didst a dweller in the Eternal come;

      The dust thy floor, the heaven of stars thy dome,

        To break a lance for Truth in some new tourney.

            With Nature blent

            Art thou, and the wide world thy monument.

      9

      Thou gypsy of all time, no lot seems strange,

        No life was sterile

      To that free spirit, wrought by rugged change;

      Thy heart found rest in strife, and did outrange

        The farthest fancy, and woo the sorest peril.

            Hardships and lack

            Were comrades, and the milestones on thy track.

      F. W. Orde Ward.

      GEORGE HENRY BORROW.

      The time is ripe, and over ripe, for

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