A book of memories of great men and women of the age, from personal acquaintance (1877)
Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo, Wordsworth Collection · London, Virtue · leaf 333
His homely tale this very day. No doubt it is the bird of which the poet sang so sweetly and so oft. Still Along the rivers stony marge The sand-lark chants a joyous song;Ine thrush is busy in the wood,And carols loud and strong. There are all the mountains-- a mob of mountains, as Montgomery… … THE HEAD OF WINDBEMBEE. lovely Derwentwater, lonely Haweswater: they were, each and all, familiar to thepoet almost as his own Walk above the Eotha :— Ye know him well, ye cliffsAnd islands of Winander. They all knew him, and of all he was the Laureate. The brook I reverentlycross is that Whose…
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