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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
52
Sunday,
27th.--Very
warm....
I
wrote
out
Ruth
in
the
afternoon.
In
the
morning,
I
read
Mr.
Knight's
Landscape.[26]
After
tea
we
rowed
down
to
Loughrigg
Fell,
visited
the
white
foxglove,
gathered
wild
strawberries,
and
walked
up
to
view
Rydale.
We
lay
a
long
time
looking
at
the
lake;
the
shores
all
dim
with
the
scorching
sun.
The
ferns
were
turning
yellow,
that
is,
here
and
there
one
was
quite
turned.
We
walked
round
by
Benson's
wood
home.
The
lake
was
now
most
still,
and
reflected
the
beautiful
yellow
and
blue
and
purple
and
grey
colours
of
the
sky.
We
heard
a
strange
sound
in
the
Bainriggs
wood,
as
we
were
floating
on
the
water;
it
seemed
in
the
wood,
but
it
must
have
been
above
it,
for
presently
we
saw
a
raven
very
high
above
us.
It
called
out,
and
the
dome
of
the
sky
seemed
to
echo
the
sound.
It
called
again
and
again
as
it
flew
onwards,
and
the
mountains
gave
back
the
sound,
seeming
as
if
from
their
centre;
a
musical
bell-like
answering
to
the
bird's
hoarse
voice.
We
heard
both
the
call
of
the
bird,
and
the
echo,
after
we
could
see
him
no
longer....[27]
[Footnote
26:
The
Landscape:
a
Didactic
Poem
in
three
Books.
By
Richard
Payne
Knight.
1794.--ED.]
[Footnote
27:
Compare
The
Excursion,
book
iv.
II.
1185-1195.--ED.]
Monday.--Received
a
letter
from
Coleridge
enclosing
one
from
Mr.
Davy
about
the
Lyrical
Ballads.
Intensely
hot....
William
went
into
the
wood,
and
altered
his
poems....
Thursday.--All
the
morning
I
was
busy
copying
poems.
Gathered
peas,
and
in
the
afternoon
Coleridge
came.
He
brought
the
2nd
volume
of
Anthology.
The
men
went
to
bathe,
and
we
afterwards
sailed
down
to
Loughrigg.
Read
poems
on
the
water,
and
let
the
boat
take
its
own
course.
We
walked
a
long
time
upon
Loughrigg.
I
returned
in
the
grey
twilight.
The
moon
just
setting
as
we
reached
home.
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