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Forever England
A
series of infrared images commemorating the splendour of some of England’s
stately homes and gardens which typify the pure Englishness of our once proud
aristocratic heritage. This love of England so perfectly illustrated in
some of the very moving poetry by Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
‘The
Soldier’
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven
Locations of Images:
Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire.
Stourhead, Stourton, Warminster, Wiltshire.
Calke Abbey, Ticknall, Derby, Derbyshire.
Chastleton House, Chastleton, nr. Morton-in-Marsh, Oxfordshire.
Claydon House, Claydon, nr. Buckingham, Buckinghamshire.
Great Chalfield Manor, nr. Melksham, Wiltshire.
Hidcote Manor, Hidcote Bartrim, nr. Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire.
Minster Lovell Hall, nr. Witney, Oxfordshire.
INDEX OF IMAGES
photographs
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