Inscription Intended for a Stone in the Grounds of Rydal Mount. William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Rydal. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. 1876-79. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. England: Vols. I-IV

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.

Rydal

Inscription Intended for a Stone in the Grounds of Rydal Mount

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)


IN these fair vales hath many a tree
At Wordsworth’s suit been spared;
And from the builder’s hand this stone,
For some rude beauty of its own,
Was rescued by the bard:	5
So let it rest; and time will come
When here the tender-hearted
May heave a gentle sigh for him,
As one of the departed.