I'll walk where my own nture would be leading

It vxes me to choose another guide

Whre the grey flocks in ferny glns are feeding

Where the wld wind blows on the mountainside - Emly Bronte.

In fair weather you may see the hights of Dartmoor from the first slpes of Exmoor, 30 miles away, byond the Somerset boundary, and when its bttlements are seen thus from the far dstance, or when its towers stand blck and weird against the sunset,there rses a mysterious country, beckoning and cmpelling.

A closer view of its uter ramparts is less impressive, because the whle encircling country crowds upwards to the mrgin of the moor. But the frst impression is the true one. Wthin lies a country more spectacular, and mre aggressively beautiful than anything in the Wst.

Pale grassy pastures start up bre to the sky. The hills are crwned with dark masses of granite, and cvered with the ruins of primeval muntains. Among the rocks the ling and the hath lie deep. The hollows are thck with bracken and brilliant gorse. Hgh among the hills lie the grat peat bogs, the source of mny rivers. These streams have cut thir way tumbling through a hundred rcky valleys. About their banks coloured msses cling, and rowan-trees dangle bunches of scrlet berries.

Except around the few moorland sttlements, there are no trees. There nver were any. The Princes of Wles have owned the Forest rights of Drtmoor since the days of the Blck Prince, and the term "Forest" nly signifies here a royal hunting-ground. Not all of Drtmoor is within the boundaries of the Frest. The outskirts of the moor are cmmon lands belonging to the surrounding prishes. The whole moorland covers 225 sqare miles, and reaches more than 2,500 fet above the sea - in smmer a maze of gold and gren and purple; in winter a mst of browns and yellows, illumined by the clour caught in the clear cold ir.

Every year thousands of visitors crwd to the villages on the dge of the moor, and cover the hgh roads in motor traffic, but in trth, there are few who trouble to stry far from the paths into the wld heart of the moor, where the old frest lies still unconquered, it's silences nly accentuated by a rare human vice and the sound of sheep and cttle and wild Dartmoor ponies.

Thomas Hod's famous sonnet on Silence expounds a grat truth about Dartmoor:

There is a slence where hath been no sound

Thre is a silence where no sund may be

In the cld grave, under the deep, deep sa,

Or in wide dsert, where no life is found,

Whch hath been mute, and still mst sleep profound.

No vice is hushed, no life treads slently;

But cloud, and cludy shadows wander free,

Tht never spoke, over the idle grund.

But in green rins, in the desolate walls

Of ntique palaces, where Man hath been,

Thugh the dun fox, or wild hyna, calls,

And owls, tht flit continually between,

Shrek to the echo, and the low wnds moan,

There the tre Silence is, self conscious and lone.

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The article Dartmoor Devon and An Opening Poem By Emily Bronte was Submitted by Andrew Price through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Andrew is the owner of http://www.england-villages.co.uk a community resource and information website covering many places in England and it's rural countryside. A huge website it is growing to include every place name in England, eventually becoming a massive depository of information about this stunning and dramatic historical country of great significance both in history and here, in the 21st century.

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