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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
78
Tuesday,
8th
December
1801.--A
dullish,
rainyish
morning.
Wm.
at
work
with
Chaucer.
I
read
Bruce's
Lochleven....
William
worked
at
The
Cuckoo
and
the
Nightingale
till
he
was
tired....
Wednesday
Morning,
9th
December.--
...
I
read
Palemon
and
Arcite....
William
writing
out
his
alteration
of
Chaucer's
Cuckoo
and
Nightingale....
When
I
had
finished
a
letter
to
C.,
...
Mary
and
I
walked
into
Easedale,
and
backwards
and
forwards
in
that
large
field
under
George
Rawson's
white
cottage.
We
had
intended
gathering
mosses,
and
for
that
purpose
we
turned
into
the
green
lane,
behind
the
tailor's,
but
it
was
too
dark
to
see
the
mosses.
The
river
came
galloping
past
the
Church,
as
fast
as
it
could
come;
and
when
we
got
into
Easedale
we
saw
Churn
Milk
Force,
like
a
broad
stream
of
snow
at
the
little
foot-bridge.
We
stopped
to
look
at
the
company
of
rivers,
which
came
hurrying
down
the
vale,
this
way
and
that.
It
was
a
valley
of
streams
and
islands,
with
that
great
waterfall
at
the
head,
and
lesser
falls
in
different
parts
of
the
mountains,
coming
down
to
these
rivers.
We
could
hear
the
sound
of
the
lesser
falls,
but
we
could
not
see
them.
We
walked
backwards
and
forwards
till
all
distant
objects,
except
the
white
shape
of
the
waterfall
and
the
lines
of
the
mountains,
were
gone.
We
had
the
crescent
moon
when
we
went
out,
and
at
our
return
there
were
a
few
stars
that
shone
dimly,
but
it
was
a
grey
cloudy
night.
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