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OLD ENGLAND

I FOUND that I was not unmoved to see the shores of
England again. The Isle of Wight, with its velvet fields,
its great houses level with the water and its spreading sym-
metrical trees, softened and made rich by the moist air
and under a troubled sky, reminded me of Tennyson and
the greenwood tree and Victoria at Osborne Castle.

When I had last seen the Isle of Wight, we had been
anchored in a troop-ship outside Southampton Harbor,
waiting for a clear night to cross. When it got dark, the
British soldiers would cluster together at the bow and sing
a lugubrious convivial song:

Here's to good old sherry --
Drink 'er down, drink 'er down!
Here's to good old sherry --
Drink 'er down, drink 'er down!
Here's to good old sherry,
For it makes you feel so merry!
Here's to good old sherry --
Drink 'er down!

Raolling 'aome, raolling 'aome,
By the light of the silvery mune.
Ha-ha ha-ha ha!
And a ha-ha ha-ha ha!
Here's to good old sherry --
Drink 'er down!

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Publication Information: Book Title: Red, Black, Blond, and Olive: Studies in Four Civilizations Zuni, Haiti, Soviet Russia, Israel. Contributors: Edmund Wilson - author. Publisher: W.H. Allen. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1956. Page Number: 149.
    
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