The Star Dreamer by Egerton Castle — Read

Here finds he on the oak rheum-purging Polypode; And in some open place that to the sun doth lie He Fumitory gets, and Eyebright for the eye; The Yarrow wherewithal he stays the wound-made gore, The healing Tutsan then, and Plantaine for a sore. -DRAYTON (_Polyolbion_).

The lagging sun of autumn had travelled but a small part of its ascent, and the green inner courtyard of what was known as "the keep wing" of Bindon, so stilly enclosed by its three tall walls and the towering screen of the keep itself, was yet in shadow-not the cheerless, universal grey of a clouded sky, but the friendly, coloured shadiness that is the sunshine's own doing.