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    The Thames
    The Thames
    The Thames
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    The Thames

    By E. W. Haslehust and G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Thames - E. W. Haslehust

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Thames, by G. E. Mitton

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      Title: The Thames

      Author: G. E. Mitton

      Illustrator: E. W. Haslehust

      Release Date: June 17, 2012 [EBook #40020]

      Language: English

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      AT HAMPTON COURT

      THE THAMES

      DESCRIBED BY G. E. MITTON

      PICTURED BY E. W. HASLEHUST

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      WINDSOR

      When the American wondered what all the fuss was about, and guessed that any one of his home rivers could swallow the Thames and never know it, the Englishman replied, he guessed it depended at which end the process began; if at the mouth, the American river would probably get no farther than the greatest city the world has ever known before succumbing to indigestion!

      With rivers as with men, size is not an element in greatness, and for no other reason than that it carries London on its banks the Thames would be the most famous river in the world. It has other claims too, claims which are here set forth with pen and pencil; for at present we are not dealing with London at all, but with that river of pleasure of which Spenser wrote:—

      Along the shores of silver-streaming Themmes;

      Whose rutty bank, the which his river hemmes,

      Was paynted all with variable flowers,

      And all the meades adorned with dainty gemmes,

      Fit to deck mayden bowres and crowne their paramoures,

      Against the brydale day which is not long,

      Sweet Thames! runne softly till I end my song.

      Oddly enough, this is one of the comparatively few allusions to the Thames in literature, and there is no single striking ode in its honour. It is perhaps too much to expect the present Poet Laureate to fill the gap, but certainly the poet of the Thames has yet to arise.

      Besides Spenser, Drayton makes allusion to the Thames in his Polyolbion, using as an allegory the wedding of Thame and Isis, from which union is born the Thames; and in this he is correct, for where Thame and Isis unite at Dorchester there begins the Thames, and all that is usually counted Thames, up to Oxford and beyond, is, as Oxford men correctly say, the Isis. Yet by custom now the river which flows past Oxford is treated as the Thames, and when we speak of our national river we count its source as being in the Cotswold Hills.

      Other poets who refer to the Thames are Denham, Cowley, Milton, and Pope. In modern times Matthew Arnold’s tender descriptions of the river about and below Oxford have been many times quoted. Gray wrote an Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, in which he refers to the hoary Thames, but the lines apostrophizing the little victims at play are more

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