Anglophilia
Books that represent an affinity for any and all things British/English.
“
We have a friend, and Anglophile American city-dweller in his eighties, whose main ambition, now, is to hear a cuckoo call, for he never has, and perhaps he never will, for he is rather deaf. But, if he came and sat under the magic apple tree for an afternoon in May, it would be quiet enough, and then he might listen to the cuckoo-cuckoo-cuckoo until he had his fill.
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― The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year
― The Magic Apple Tree: A Country Year
“
Oh, to lie awake at night and think of England,
Out of reach and far away;
Oh, to see her in the distance as a picture,
And to let your fancy play...
Oh, to lie and feel the very blood within you-
Every pulse of it is hers-
And to know that you shall lay it down in silence
Where no English memory stirs....
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