{"id":26076,"date":"1980-12-21T18:10:38","date_gmt":"1980-12-21T18:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26076"},"modified":"2013-07-09T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:39:25","slug":"june-mann-a-northiam-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26076","title":{"rendered":"June Mann &#8211; A Northiam Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<a title=\"Bohemia Bouquet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25494\"><em>Bohemian Bouquet<\/em><\/a>, published 1980 by The Bohemians<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Northiam Walk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What could be more pleasant<\/p>\n<p>On a warm summer\u2019s day,<\/p>\n<p>Than strolling through the woods and fields,<\/p>\n<p>Through leaves, and dust and hay?<\/p>\n<p>With friends to share your wanders,<\/p>\n<p>And dogs to sniff around<\/p>\n<p>In search for smells that snouts delight,<\/p>\n<p>With which the ways abound.<\/p>\n<p>The sun\u2019s bright heat upon your back,<\/p>\n<p>While gentle breezes play<\/p>\n<p>Soft sweet music for your ears<\/p>\n<p>Among Dog-Rose and May.<\/p>\n<p>With undulating countryside<\/p>\n<p>To feast your eyes upon \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Such memories to put to store<\/p>\n<p>For when the summer\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n<p>To talk of this and mention that,<\/p>\n<p>No lofty thoughts inspire,<\/p>\n<p>Content to let the sterner things<\/p>\n<p>Of life to just \u2018Hang fire!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, there\u2019s a lark, &#8211; and see how sheep<\/p>\n<p>Have walked this way in line,<\/p>\n<p>A winding path their hooves have trod<\/p>\n<p>In pastures chewed down fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s climb this stile and see beyond<\/p>\n<p>The corn that\u2019s grown so well,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A bumper crop\u2019 the farmer says<\/p>\n<p>To make the hoppers swell.<\/p>\n<p>A dragonfly is hovering<\/p>\n<p>While crickets gaily sing,<\/p>\n<p>A rabbit\u2019s ear is briskly washed,<\/p>\n<p>A heron takes to wing.<\/p>\n<p>The Rother winds its gentle way<\/p>\n<p>With willows standing by,<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Neath mellow-bricked bridge and railway line<\/p>\n<p>To emerge at last in Rye.<\/p>\n<p>These pastoral scenes my soul enjoys,<\/p>\n<p>No city dweller, me.<\/p>\n<p>Give me the rural setting please,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave the streets to thee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>June Mann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Bohemian Bouquet, published 1980 by The Bohemians &nbsp; A Northiam Walk What could be more pleasant On a warm summer\u2019s day, Than strolling through the woods and fields, Through leaves, and dust and hay? With friends to&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26076\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[243,109],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26076"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26999,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26076\/revisions\/26999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}