26 EPPING FOREST.
and the brain, weary of dead walls and the turmoil
of streets. The general opinion, so unmistakably
evinced, that the Forest shall remain a forest and
not be civilised into a park, is but the expression
of a true instinct. May the people of London,
from generation to generation, continue to draw
full drafts at Nature's source, and to profit by all
the lessons which she teaches.
CORDER FROM THE " TENISON " PSALTER, A.D. 1284.