The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-09-16

was placed there not long after his
death. 1t is not quite familiar as the
! face is slightly fuller than we are &C
, customed to seeing it, but it is the
same man who greets us from mos
, editions of his works. 1t was white
! washed for a long time-and that Is
more than his townsmen try to do fol-
they admit he may have done some
things wrong in his life-but now II
has been restored to it's original col
i ors. The eyes have a light hazed col
or, the hair and beard auburn, while
the dress is a scarlet doublet over
4 which there is thrown a loose, black
sleeveless gown. He leans on green
cushion with gold tassels. At the OPP
posite end of the church stands the
baptismal font at which he was given
his name and the books with the SIM
pie legend of his birth and death
How much came between the time
when the church, first claimed him
and when she at last received him.
We went down to- the evening service
so imbued were we with the feeling
that we could thus do something which
the poet might have done and posi-
bly, didn't.
The Memorial was interesting be-
cause it contains so many pictures and
statues of the famous actors and &C.
tresses, who have interpreted his char
acters, beside numerous relics of
theirs, as we'll as a few of the poet,
himself. All Stratford is typically an
English town and it is such comfor-
table, honey place, you feel like you
were leaving something dear, when
you start off on your coaching trip for
Warwick and Kenilworth, where we
saw one ruined and one restored cas-
tie. No ride in all England could be
more exquisitely beautiful than this
drive. At Kenilworth, Robert Dudley
entertained Queen Elizabeth and it
cost him pretty penny, too, until the
day when Oliver Cromwell destroyed
it forever.
Warwick is said to be the best pre-
served, as well as the best type of
medieval castles. Here William the
Conqueror is first definitely placed on
his little tour through England, here
Warwick made and unmade Kings
during part of the War of the Roses,
and many a noble prisoner thought
things over in the dungeon under the
gate tower.
That night saw the party in old
Chester, surrounded by its Roman
wall. Friday, the party tried the Jeri-
cho act on top of the wall-minus the
trumpets. The old cathedral is inter-
esting to visit as it is fine example of
English cathedral architecture
Saturday was breaking up day as
parties were being torn asunder and
there was wailing and gnashing of
teeth. Strange as it may seem, we
had grown very much attached to each
other and the Down the Slope" hated
to disband. The Scotland division, in
which company l belong, got under
way first and we felt little bereft as
we rolled out of the station with
new conductor and a small number Of
his party, while our own conductor
and a large part of our party faded
from our sight.
|
The ride to Windermere by train
was very typically English with its
arms and then its manufacturing
own, all the time with low hills in
he distance and green fields in the
The drive from Winder-
mere to Ambleside was along a most
delightful country road, with very oc-
,asional glimpses Of the lake through
he hedges on one side and attractive
,ardens and fine estates on the land
tide. Here lived Wordsworth in Dove
cottage with his sister Dorothy and
drs. Hemans also lived here in Doves
Test. 1t has a most beautiful setting
With the mountains rising abruptly
bout it and the heather tnging the
Gene viii purple. One might almost
ancy that it was a White Mountain
Gene instead of being near the border
4 Scotland.
But we have seen very little of it
,ecause it has not only rained, it has
aimed in torrents even since we ar
lived Saturday afternoon, and all day
we sat by an open crate fire,
Ike tabby cats, to keep warm. It's
cold country when its wetting a
it,"
The last of this series will be mailed
rom New York, wind and tide per-
hitting.
SARA X. PARKER.