



Give to me good earth as pillow and the sky stroking tonic of willow to plant within me the root of home that will grow dominant as I roam from the Northern lights natural wend that inverts to Southern tip of rugged Land's End, from the Eastern edge of Lincolnshire spire to the western crown of Snowdon augmenting me higher, Give to me, good England, compelling, unfinished, productive and proud and never diminished, resolution in water colour sketch book blended to clamouring landscapes of emerald and blue suspended, that chime in a dissonant, evaporating tone, perfect in sharpness, a galvanising anger to hone to utter incision, to immaculate control, to intensity of intervals to penetrate my soul.
Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, was born today in 1572.
John Constable, English landscape painter, was born today in 1776.