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   From: no.spam@no.spam   
      
   On 8/29/2011 4:02 PM, Christopher Kreuzer wrote:   
      
   > I see words there like byre and farmstead,   
   > which are not really archaic.   
      
   I like this passage a lot; from _Return of the King_:   
      
      The townlands were rich,   
      with wide tilth and many orchards   
      homesteads there were   
      with oast and garner, fold and byre   
      
   It's as if Tolkien could hardly restrain himself from breaking into   
   poetry. Compare the last line above to these from "The Lady of Shalott":   
      
      Out upon the wharfs they came,   
      Knight and burgher, lord and dame,   
      
   Also compare the bountiful pastoral scene with this one from   
   John Greenleaf Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie":   
      
      Up from the meadows rich with corn,	   
      Clear in the cool September morn,	   
      
      The clustered spires of Frederick stand	   
      Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.	   
      
      Round about them orchards sweep,   
      Apple and peach tree fruited deep,	   
      
      Fair as a garden of the Lord	   
      To the eyes of the famished rebel horde   
      
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