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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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WILLIAM
KNIGHT.
I
DOROTHY
WORDSWORTH'S
JOURNAL
WRITTEN
AT
ALFOXDEN
FROM
20TH
JANUARY
TO
22ND
MAY
1798
DOROTHY
WORDSWORTH'S
JOURNAL,
WRITTEN
AT
ALFOXDEN
IN
1798[2]
[Footnote
2:
In
the
original
MS.
there
is
no
title.
The
above
is
a
descriptive
one,
given
by
the
editor.--ED.]
Alfoxden,
January
20th
1798.--The
green
paths
down
the
hill-sides
are
channels
for
streams.
The
young
wheat
is
streaked
by
silver
lines
of
water
running
between
the
ridges,
the
sheep
are
gathered
together
on
the
slopes.
After
the
wet
dark
days,
the
country
seems
more
populous.
It
peoples
itself
in
the
sunbeams.
The
garden,
mimic
of
spring,
is
gay
with
flowers.
The
purple-starred
hepatica
spreads
itself
in
the
sun,
and
the
clustering
snow-drops
put
forth
their
white
heads,
at
first
upright,
ribbed
with
green,
and
like
a
rosebud
when
completely
opened,
hanging
their
heads
downwards,
but
slowly
lengthening
their
slender
stems.
The
slanting
woods
of
an
unvarying
brown,
showing
the
light
through
the
thin
net-work
of
their
upper
boughs.
Upon
the
highest
ridge
of
that
round
hill
covered
with
planted
oaks,
the
shafts
of
the
trees
show
in
the
light
like
the
columns
of
a
ruin.
21st.
Walked
on
the
hill-tops--a
warm
day.
Sate
under
the
firs
in
the
park.
The
tops
of
the
beeches
of
a
brown-red,
or
crimson.
Those
oaks,
fanned
by
the
sea
breeze,
thick
with
feathery
sea-green
moss,
as
a
grove
not
stripped
of
its
leaves.
Moss
cups
more
proper
than
acorns
for
fairy
goblets.
22nd.--Walked
through
the
wood
to
Holford.
The
ivy
twisting
round
the
oaks
like
bristled
serpents.
The
day
cold--a
warm
shelter
in
the
hollies,
capriciously
bearing
berries.
Query:
Are
the
male
and
female
flowers
on
separate
trees?
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