2016-07-08

【I picked this flower for you on the hilltop…】

Victor Hugo (1802—1885)

      I picked this flower for you on the hilltop.

      In the steep scarp that overhangs the tide,

      Which only eagles know and only they can reach,

      Calmly she grew on the rock's creviced side.

     Darkness was bathing all the slopes of the bleak promontory.

      In the place wher

2016-07-08

【Lamentation of Damaris】

George Métivier (1790—1881)

          Old Fountain Street’s all in a flutter,

          Its dwellers are all in a stew,

          There is growling from garret to gutter,

          That the old must give place to the new!

          Damaris harangueth her neighbours,

          And bitterly

2016-07-08

【Aiden in English】

        The first stop of our English Isles cruise is at the small island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, the Sunshine Island. The natives are "stubborn as a mule, with a kick like a horse!" Being a part of the Crown dependencies, it is considered the last remnants of the medieval Duchy of Normandy, although not the UK. In other words, the Guernsey people take great pride in their alliance with Britain but are no