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THE GRAVE AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

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to the grave by an immense concourse of persons of all ranks and all ages-a sweet and appropriate place for a poet's tomb, in that deep silence, broken only by the murmurs of the river, or of the complaining winds, among the simple peasants and dalesmen whose history he has recorded. In a grave surrounded by the Sycamore and the Yew, next to that of Hartley Coleridge, next to his own children early lost; there is a large plain slab of grey limestone, and on it the simple inscription

"WILLIAM WORDSWORTH."

Within Grasmere Church, over the pew which the Poet occupied, his friends and neighbours have placed an elegant tablet with a very good medallion likeness. and the following inscription:

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A TRUE PHILOSOPHER AND POET, WHO, BY THE SPECIAL GIFT AND CALLING OF ALMIGHTY GOD, WHETHER HE DISCOURSED ON MAN OR NATURE,

OF

FAILED NOT TO LIFT UP THE HEART

TO HOLY THINGS;

TIRED NOT OF MAINTAINING THE CAUSE

THE POOR AND SIMPLE,

AND SO IN PERILOUS TIMES WAS RAISED UP TO BE A CHIEF MINISTER

NOT ONLY OF

NOBLEST POESY,

BUT OF

HIGH AND SACRED TRUTH.

THIS MEMORIAL

IS PLACED HERE BY HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS, IN TESTIMONY OF

A Monument has also been placed in Westminster Abbey, which it may be hoped will by-and-by stand where it may be seen at present it occupies a place in almost ignominious isolation.

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Childhood, The Soul of

Charles Lamb, his Review of the Excursion

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Letters to Wordsworth

Suppers and Literary Circles at

Christian Individualism

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Cintra, Congress at, Wordsworth on the .

Classical Drama, The

Cockermouth, Wordsworth's Birth-place, described

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Description of, by Miss Wordsworth

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his Intimacy with Wordsworth

Compact with Wordsworth

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325-326

His Definition of Poetry.

374

"Hartley, quoted

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Mr. Justice, quoted

Comedy, the Spiritual Purpose of

Companions, Wordsworth's

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436

Congress of Cintra

395

Crabbe

328-329

Creed; Wordsworth's Esthetic and Ethic

381

Critics

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Day's, A, Wanderings in the Land of Wordsworth

De Quincey: his Essay on the Laocoon

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Dorothy Wordsworth, the Poet's Sister, her Beautiful Relations

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