of Christ. He hath said, ye shall not die but live--
England blossoms in fulfilment. He hath founded his Church, whose
children we are, whether we will or no, and after a far wandering
presently shall return homeward. For those words endure and will
endure; more living than the words even of our poets, more lasting
than the cliffs of the sea, or the rocks of the mountains, or the
sands of the deserts, because they are as the flowers by the wayside.

Therefore England is not merely what we see and are; it is all the past
and all the future, it is inheritance; the fields we have always
ploughed, the landscape and the sea, the tongue we speak, the verse we
know by heart, all we hope for, all we love and venerate, under God.
And there abides a sense of old times gone, of ancient law, of
friendship, of religious benediction.

E. H.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
TO CANTERBURY
THE PILGRIMS' ROAD TO DARTFORD

CHAPTER II
THE PILGRIMS' ROAD TO ROCHESTER

CHAPTER III
THE PILGRIMS' ROAD--ROCHESTER

CHAPTER IV
THE PILGRIMS' ROAD TO FAVERSHAM

CHAPTER V
THE PILGRIMS' ROAD TO CANTERBURY

CHAPTER VI
THE CITY OF ST THOMAS

CHAPTER VII
CAESAR IN KENT

CHAPTER VIII
THE WEALD AND THE MARSH

CHAPTER IX
RYE AND WINCHELSEA

CHAPTER X
THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS

CHAPTER XI
LEWES AND SIMON DE MONTFORT

CHAPTER XII
THE DOWNS

CHAPTER XIII
THE WEALD

CHAPTER XIV
TO ARUNDEL AND CHICHESTER

CHAPTER XV
CHICHESTER

CHAPTER XVI
SELSEY, BOSHAM AND PORCHESTER

CHAPTER XVII
SOUTHAMPTON

CHAPTER XVIII
BEAULIEU AND CHRISTCHURCH

CHAPTER XIX
THE NEW FOREST AND ROMSEY ABBEY

CHAPTER XX
WINCHESTER

CHAPTER XXI
SELBORNE

INDEX

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHEYNEY COURT AND THE CLOSE GATE, WINCHESTER

SHOOTERS' HILL

DARTFORD CHURCH AND BRIDGE

THE GATEWAY OF THE MONASTERY CLOSE, ROCHESTER

ROCHESTER

CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL FROM CHRISTCHURCH GATE

WEST GATE, CANTERBURY

ON THE STOUR NEAR CANTERBURY

CHILHAM

A CORNER OF ROMNEY MARSH

RYE

WINCHELSEA CHURCH

BATTLE ABBEY

LEWES CASTLE

THE DOWNS

THE WEALD OF SUSSEX, NORTH OF LEWES

ARUNDEL CASTLE

THE MARKET CROSS, CHICHESTER

BOSHAM

THE TUDOR HOUSE, OPPOSITE ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH, SOUTHAMPTON

IN THE NEW FOREST

ROMSEY ABBEY

NORTH TRANSEPT, WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL

ST CROSS, WINCHESTER

SELBORNE FROM THE HANGER

ENGLAND OF MY HEART

CHAPTER I

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