The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150464   Message #3643201
Posted By: MGM·Lion
18-Jul-14 - 02:46 PM
Thread Name: Favorite Lines
Subject: RE: Favorite Lines
G. K. Chesterton described that widespread "floater"

Over the hills and far away

as "the finest line in English literature and the silent refrain of all English poems".

(Not quite sure what he meant by the last phrase; but it is certainly a most exquisitely nostalgically expressed concept, isn't it?)

~M~