Before revision: Brother and friend, if verse of mine Have power to make thy virtues known, Here let a monumental Stone Stand–sacred as a ShrineA Lake District Miscellany, by Tom Holman © 2007 Tom Holman So much of the above is incorrect:(a) Wordsworth could not have erected the stone in 1880, as he was already 30 years dead; it was erected by Canon Rawnsley;(b) the memorial commemorates the last occasion Wordsworth saw his brother John in the Lake District, on 29 September 1800; he and Dorothy met him subsequently in London;(c) John died on 5 February 1805.
After revision: Brother and friend, if verse of mine Have power to make thy virtues known, Here let a monumental Stone Stand–sacred as a ShrineA Lake District Miscellany, by Tom Holman © 2007 Tom Holman