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WILDE'S LOUGH CORRIB
Distributed in the UK by Colin Smythe Limited Westward, Ho! Let us rise with the sun, and be off to the land of the West--to the lakes and streams--the grassy glens and fern-clad gorges--the bluff hills and rugged mountains--now cloud-capped, then revealed in azure, or bronzed by evening's tints, as the light of day sinks into the bold swell of the Atlantic, and leaves his reflection in long level streaks of crimson, green, and orange, among the greyish-purple robe of twilight, when the shadows of the headlands sink deep into the placid waters of the lake. But, whether seen in sunshine or in shade-- curtained by the mist, or with the bright light of morning playing upon the brown scores and land-slips on the mountain side, or when the streamlets form threads of molten silver as they gleam through the purple heather and the yellow-lichened rocks ere they leap into the lake--the land we invite you to is ever beautiful in outline, and graceful in form; and as the warm breezes, carried on to us with the great Gulf stream, steal in among the West Connacht, Joyce Country, and Connamara ranges the Jura and the Alps of Ireland--and give fitful atmospheric changes to the colouring of the landscape, from bright early dawn to sombre eve, scenes of beauty and sublimity are presented that leave us nothing to envy, even in the everlasting snowtops with their vine-clad slopes and dark pine-robed sides, the mighty glaciers, the rushing avalanches, nor the deep ultramarine skies of other lands... ISBN 9-9540034-1-1) 2002 .£25.00 PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE TITLES ON OSCAR WILDE |
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