Matrical meanderings back to his past, his boyhood in a country village against the background of the Welsh Black Mountains. Scenes and places loved, -- the church, the old canal, a view, fields and orchards, farmyard animals, the people; and in contrast, the poverty, the ignorance, the abuse of many of those simple folk, in a country ""backward and blind"" -- and today's hope for ""an England better than the last"". Practised versification -- for his market.