The Source of Europe's Mild Climate

>>PaulHo+(OP)
> England is blessed with its pleasant climate

Two sentences in and I already have a thousand questions.

>>stavro+07
I assumed it was a literary reference to Blake:

    I will not cease from Mental Fight,
    Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
    Till we have built Jerusalem,
    In England's green & pleasant Land.

The British, broadly speaking, are familiar with this quotation (the poem was set as a popular hymn); when they refer to the climate as pleasant, it's somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

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