https://www.textarchiv.com/william-browne English poet. Born 1590 in Tavistock, Devon, United Kingdom. Died 1645 Ottery St Mary, United Kingdom. de https://www.textarchiv.com/william-browne/to-england <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:text content:encoded"><p>Hail, thou my native soil! thou blessed plot<br /> Whose equal all the world affordeth not!<br /> Show me who can so many crystal rills,<br /> Such sweet-clothed valleys or aspiring hills;<br /> Such wood-ground, pastures, quarries, wealthy mines;<br /> Such rocks in whom the diamond fairly shines;<br /> And if the earth can show the like again,<br /> Yet will she fail in her sea-ruling men.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="schema:author"><a href="/william-browne" typeof="skos:Concept" property="schema:name" datatype="">William Browne</a></div></div></div><span rel="schema:url" resource="/william-browne/to-england" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="schema:name" content="To England" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:57:51 +0000 mrbot 6255 at https://www.textarchiv.com