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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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Friday,
7th
May.--William
had
slept
uncommonly
well,
so,
feeling
himself
strong,
he
fell
to
work
at
The
Leech
Gatherer;
he
wrote
hard
at
it
till
dinner
time,
then
he
gave
over,
tired
to
death--he
had
finished
the
poem.
I
was
making
Derwent's
frocks.
After
dinner
we
sate
in
the
orchard.
It
was
a
thick,
hazy,
dull
air.
The
thrush
sang
almost
continually;
the
little
birds
were
more
than
usually
busy
with
their
voices.
The
sparrows
are
now
full
fledged.
The
nest
is
so
full
that
they
lie
upon
one
another;
they
sit
quietly
in
their
nest
with
closed
mouths.
I
walked
to
Rydale
after
tea,
which
we
drank
by
the
kitchen
fire.
The
evening
very
dull;
a
terrible
kind
of
threatening
brightness
at
sunset
above
Easedale.
The
sloe-thorn
beautiful
in
the
hedges,
and
in
the
wild
spots
higher
up
among
the
hawthorns.
No
letters.
William
met
me.
He
had
been
digging
in
my
absence,
and
cleaning
the
well.
We
walked
up
beyond
Lewthwaites.
A
very
dull
sky;
coolish;
crescent
moon
now
and
then.
I
had
a
letter
brought
me
from
Mrs.
Clarkson
while
we
were
walking
in
the
orchard.
I
observed
the
sorrel
leaves
opening
at
about
nine
o'clock.
William
went
to
bed
tired
with
thinking
about
a
poem.
Saturday
Morning,
8th
May.--We
sowed
the
scarlet
beans
in
the
orchard,
and
read
Henry
V.
there.
William
lay
on
his
back
on
the
seat,
and
wept....
After
dinner
William
added
one
to
the
orchard
steps.
Sunday
Morning,
9th
May.--The
air
considerably
colder
to-day,
but
the
sun
shone
all
day.
William
worked
at
The
Leech
Gatherer
almost
incessantly
from
morning
till
tea-time.
I
copied
The
Leech
Gatherer
and
other
poems
for
Coleridge.
I
was
oppressed
and
sick
at
heart,
for
he
wearied
himself
to
death.
After
tea
he
wrote
two
stanzas
in
the
manner
of
Thomson's
Castle
of
Indolence,
and
was
tired
out.
Bad
news
of
Coleridge.
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