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The Prose Works of William Wordsworth

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See in further illustration, the second stanza inscribed upon her cenotaph in Coleorton Church.
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*_Elegiac Musings in the Grounds of Coleorton Hall_.[XIII.] These verses were in fact composed on horseback during a storm, whilst I was on my way from Coleorton to Cambridge.

They are alluded to elsewhere.

[Intercalated by Mrs.Quillinan--My father was on my pony, which he rode all the way from Rydal to Cambridge that I might have the comfort and pleasure of a horse at Cambridge.

The storm of wind and rain on this day was so violent that the coach in which my mother and I travelled, the same coach, was all but blown over, and had the coachman drawn up as he attempted to do at one of his halting-places, we must have been upset.


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