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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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The
people
were
at
work
ploughing,
harrowing,
and
sowing;
...
a
dog
barking
now
and
then,
cocks
crowing,
birds
twittering,
the
snow
in
patches
at
the
top
of
the
highest
hills,
yellow
palms,
purple
and
green
twigs
on
the
birches,
ashes
with
their
glittering
stems
quite
bare.
The
hawthorn
a
bright
green,
with
black
stems
under
the
oak.
The
moss
of
the
oak
glossy.
We
went
on.
Passed
two
sisters
at
work
(they
first
passed
us),
one
with
two
pitchforks
in
her
hand,
the
other
had
a
spade.
We
had
come
to
talk
with
them.
They
laughed
long
after
we
were
gone,
perhaps
half
in
wantonness,
half
boldness.
William
finished
his
poem.[56]
Before
we
got
to
the
foot
of
Kirkstone,
there
were
hundreds
of
cattle
in
the
vale.
There
we
ate
our
dinner.
The
walk
up
Kirkstone
was
very
interesting.
The
becks
among
the
rocks
were
all
alive.
William
showed
me
the
little
mossy
streamlet
which
he
had
before
loved
when
he
saw
its
bright
green
track
in
the
snow.
The
view
above
Ambleside
very
beautiful.
There
we
sate
and
looked
down
on
the
green
vale.
We
watched
the
crows
at
a
little
distance
from
us
become
white
as
silver
as
they
flew
in
the
sunshine,
and
when
they
went
still
further,
they
looked
like
shapes
of
water
passing
over
the
green
fields.
The
whitening
of
Ambleside
church
is
a
great
deduction
from
the
beauty
of
it,
seen
from
this
point.
We
called
at
the
Luffs,
the
Roddingtons
there.
Did
not
go
in,
and
went
round
by
the
fields.
I
pulled
off
my
stockings,
intending
to
wade
the
beck,
but
I
was
obliged
to
put
them
on,
and
we
climbed
over
the
wall
at
the
bridge.
The
post
passed
us.
No
letters.
Rydale
Lake
was
in
its
own
evening
brightness:
the
Island,
and
Points
distinct.
Jane
Ashburner
came
up
to
us
when
we
were
sitting
upon
the
wall....
The
garden
looked
pretty
in
the
half-moonlight,
half-daylight,
as
we
went
up
the
vale....
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