'I shall never see her more ... ': 30 April 2022
Scots and English lament nature and war's cruel tolls ...
Urbanites know the costs and crimes that accrue upon them in the crushed and crowded First World metropolis. Less known, a little more distant, are the dangers of the bucolic world of nature. War, forbidden, and most of all, earth’s natural calamities close on the characters in these poems, odes and ballads.
Mary had a little lamb, but in Charles Kingsle…
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