"
It is uncertain whether this refers to his own poem or not, but I
incline to think it does.
It is uncertain whether this refers to his own poem or not, but I
incline to think it does.
William Wordsworth
i.
p.
50 (1806), its title is "The Twa Sisters.
" In
Walter Scott's 'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border', vol. iii. p. 287, it
is called "The Cruel Sisters. " In 'The Ballads of Scotland', collected
by W. Edmonstone Aytoun (1858), vol. i. p. 194, it is printed
"Binnorie. " In 1807 Wordsworth printed the sub-title 'The Solitude of
Binnorie'. --Ed. ]
[Footnote B: In Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal there is an entry,
under date August 16, 1800,
"William read us 'The Seven Sisters'.
"
It is uncertain whether this refers to his own poem or not, but I
incline to think it does. --Ed. ]
[Footnote C: In a MS. copy this note runs thus:
"This poem, in the groundwork of the story, is from the German of
Frederica Brun. "
Ed. ]
* * * * *
RURAL ARCHITECTURE
Composed 1800. --Published 1800
[Written at Town-end, Grasmere. These structures, as every one knows,
are common amongst our hills, being built by shepherds, as conspicuous
marks, and occasionally by boys in sport. --I. F. ]
Included among the "Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. "--Ed.
There's George Fisher, Charles Fleming, and Reginald Shore, [1]
Three rosy-cheeked school-boys, the highest not more
Than the height of a counsellor's bag;
To the top of GREAT HOW [A] did it please them to climb: [2]
And there they built up, without mortar or lime, 5
A Man on the peak of the crag.
They built him of stones gathered up as they lay:
They built him and christened him all in one day,
An urchin both vigorous and hale;
And so without scruple they called him Ralph Jones. 10
Now Ralph is renowned for the length of his bones;
The Magog of Legberthwaite dale.
Just half a week after, the wind sallied forth,
And, in anger or merriment, out of the north,
Coming on with a terrible pother, 15
From the peak of the crag blew the giant away.
Walter Scott's 'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border', vol. iii. p. 287, it
is called "The Cruel Sisters. " In 'The Ballads of Scotland', collected
by W. Edmonstone Aytoun (1858), vol. i. p. 194, it is printed
"Binnorie. " In 1807 Wordsworth printed the sub-title 'The Solitude of
Binnorie'. --Ed. ]
[Footnote B: In Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal there is an entry,
under date August 16, 1800,
"William read us 'The Seven Sisters'.
"
It is uncertain whether this refers to his own poem or not, but I
incline to think it does. --Ed. ]
[Footnote C: In a MS. copy this note runs thus:
"This poem, in the groundwork of the story, is from the German of
Frederica Brun. "
Ed. ]
* * * * *
RURAL ARCHITECTURE
Composed 1800. --Published 1800
[Written at Town-end, Grasmere. These structures, as every one knows,
are common amongst our hills, being built by shepherds, as conspicuous
marks, and occasionally by boys in sport. --I. F. ]
Included among the "Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. "--Ed.
There's George Fisher, Charles Fleming, and Reginald Shore, [1]
Three rosy-cheeked school-boys, the highest not more
Than the height of a counsellor's bag;
To the top of GREAT HOW [A] did it please them to climb: [2]
And there they built up, without mortar or lime, 5
A Man on the peak of the crag.
They built him of stones gathered up as they lay:
They built him and christened him all in one day,
An urchin both vigorous and hale;
And so without scruple they called him Ralph Jones. 10
Now Ralph is renowned for the length of his bones;
The Magog of Legberthwaite dale.
Just half a week after, the wind sallied forth,
And, in anger or merriment, out of the north,
Coming on with a terrible pother, 15
From the peak of the crag blew the giant away.
