But occasionally the weather was kinder. It does not rain all day and every day in Devon, even in winter; and during these dry interludes Keats discovered some of those amazingly many villages that owe their name to the Teign:
“There’s Bishop’s Teign,
And King’s Teign,
And Coombe at the clear Teignhead—
Where close by the stream
You may have your cream
All spread upon barley bread.
There is Newton Marsh,
With its spear-grass harsh,
A pleasant summer level