Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24

See to the right that ancient millwheel
| Above il rises mighty Helm crJr.i-- crown
| ing majestic piles of stone ever fairy wo-
| man, cowlCd priest, threatening demon, o.
| myriad changing other forms from poets
| days to Druid times of Old. Stone Ar
! thur,
The last that parleys with the setting sun,
| frownS opposite You rush by Swan inn,
| whence Wordsworth. Southey and Scott
| left on their ponies Tor Helyeilyn'S ascent,
| and whore there are still delicious legends
| OF how Scott came back of evenings after
| Wordsworth was safely snoring nj GraS-
| mere, 10 mix the lake water with u few
drops of John Barlevcorr. As YOU crash
across Rothay's bridge, YOUR eye follows
| the Spume and foam Of Sour Milk Ghyil,
, and YOUR thoughts leap 10 the farthest
depth of EaSdale, which Wordsworth
| haunted and vowed was all his own. AID
| here. just By the northern edge of Stas-
mere village. Is Allen bank. Volumes
could be written upon its memOries-fU- it
is Allen bank where Wordsworth wrote
most OF the Excursion. " where DeQuin,ey
and christopher North" first met, and
where Coleridgc wrote the Friend
But HERE Is CEASMEEE.
G"aSmere Of ancient 'RushOraring faroe:
{ rasmere with perhaps the Oldest and Nur-
tainly the quainteSt church in England;
GraSmere where the brave Old dame
sOuudly walloped the Prince Of Wales for
marrying her sheep; Grasmere wher5
DeOuircpy for thfrty-seyeu years retained
his Dove cottage and its maze of books tt,.,-
all the other writer's borrowed and never
brought back. 50 absorbed and absorbing,
were they. and whore the angel. NarsaleL,
fought the demon opium ana rescued tbat
wonderous intellect ami soul from moon
ceiyable heIIs of torment. Gl,lslu.r,. where
in old ST OsSy;lId-s chlvhlaru sleep Eiarl
ley Coler.i,ire and William Nor is,vortN
and the bcauteous Rorhav. lrapiug frunI
seUue,teriug meadows. %ives back a.ouE
the old church wall the dcathlrss sons
they sung
The heart SwellS and the ewes ill Quickly
here. aud YOU are clad the fresh reIu, II
horses speeds YOU so swiftly away. mo
road Laws along the shores OF GraSuera To-
the west are mountains. mountains cgsrl.
where Half way around the base OF bold
White Moss high above YOUR head Il fh,
..Wfshing Gate famous i'm romance aru
song Turning sharply 10 the left III -
Rydal Water. 4 spe,.l, OF blue I'm a nDu-
almost level valley. is bevorc Won. In that
cottage to The left live, i GRAND I.lrnt,.i. of
Wordsworth. Swinging INTO The north s,,t
south highway Ut spanking speed. Won come
alongside 4 tiny cOttIs,, embedded in Is.
its hedge and walls souarrly uuou tine road
and 4 sweet bit of mellow sloping away from
the place 10 he shore of Rvdll Water.
NAB scan RISES uIGH BEHIND IT
cottage ut Concord. 1t is Nab COTTAGE, svd
was built nearly 800 years ago. In il luy..
Margaret Simpson. afterw.ird the VITO pC
DeQuiucey, was born. and under his slA'..s
and iyieS Hartley Co!eridge lived aad
breathed his last.
You can scarcely recall these things De-
fore YOU are passing Rydal. Just a ul!mpsa
OF the little church Is seen. so dense il In,
foliage here But YOU know that llr their.
at the end of thai shadow way.to the right
is splendid Rydal Hal. to the left f1yc;I
Mount. where Wordsworth lived for fUr't
hlissrul wears and that the melodies OF the
Il ;ciul waterfalls are lust behind.
From Rydal through Amblesidc 10 gtlu.
dermcre. Is one mad rush of YOUR ,.sAcn.
meeting and passing coach and yehicir OF
every description. tourists OF every nalipu.
aIity in every pleasant means of going and
coming. and altogether one wild whirl OF
ENHANCING ASSOCIATIVE INTEREST
Here, Is EIielqay. SenripeIed by It's Giant