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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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Wednesday.--
...
Wm.
read
in
Ben
Jonson
in
the
morning.
I
read
a
little
German.
We
then
walked
to
Rydale.
No
letters.
They
are
slashing
away
in
Benson's
wood.
William
has
since
tea
been
talking
about
publishing
the
Yorkshire
Wolds
Poem
with
The
Pedlar.
Thursday.--A
fine
morning.
William
worked
at
the
poem
of
The
Singing
Bird.[54]
Just
as
we
were
sitting
down
to
dinner
we
heard
Mr.
Clarkson's
voice.
I
ran
down,
William
followed.
He
was
so
finely
mounted
that
William
was
more
intent
upon
the
horse
than
the
rider,
an
offence
easily
forgiven,
for
Mr.
Clarkson
was
as
proud
of
it
himself
as
he
well
could
be....
[Footnote
54:
First
published
in
1807,
under
the
title
of
The
Sailor's
Mother.--ED.]
Friday.--A
very
fine
morning.
We
went
to
see
Mr.
Clarkson
off.
The
sun
shone
while
it
rained,
and
the
stones
of
the
walls
and
the
pebbles
on
the
road
glittered
like
silver....
William
finished
his
poem
of
The
Singing
Bird.
In
the
meantime
I
read
the
remainder
of
Lessing.
In
the
evening
after
tea
William
wrote
Alice
Fell.
He
went
to
bed
tired,
with
a
wakeful
mind
and
a
weary
body....
Saturday
Morning.--It
was
as
cold
as
ever
it
has
been
all
winter,
very
hard
frost....
William
finished
Alice
Fell,
and
then
wrote
the
poem
of
The
Beggar
Woman,
taken
from
a
woman
whom
I
had
seen
in
May
(now
nearly
two
years
ago)
when
John
and
he
were
at
Gallow
Hill.
I
sate
with
him
at
intervals
all
the
morning,
took
down
his
stanzas,
etc....
After
tea
I
read
to
William
that
account
of
the
little
boy
belonging
to
the
tall
woman,
and
an
unlucky
thing
it
was,
for
he
could
not
escape
from
those
very
words,
and
so
he
could
not
write
the
poem.
He
left
it
unfinished,
and
went
tired
to
bed.
In
our
walk
from
Rydale
he
had
got
warmed
with
the
subject,
and
had
half
cast
the
poem.
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