The Prose Works of William Wordsworth Part 47

III.

List to those shriller notes!--_that_ march Perchance was on the blast, When through this Height's inverted arch, Rome's earliest legion pa.s.sed!

--They saw, adventurously impelled, And older eyes than theirs beheld, This block--and yon, whose Church-like frame Gives to the savage Pa.s.s its name.

Aspiring Road! that lov'st to hide Thy daring in a vapoury bourn, Not seldom may the hour return When thou shalt be my Guide: And I (as often we find cause, When life is at a weary pause, And we have panted up the hill Of duty with reluctant will) Be thankful, even though tired and faint, For the rich bounties of Constraint; Whence oft invigorating transports flow That Choice lacked courage to bestow!

IV.

My Soul was grateful for delight That wore a threatening brow; A veil is lifted--can she slight The scene that opens now?

Though habitation none appear, The greenness tells, man must be there; The shelter--that the perspective Is of the clime in which we live; Where Toil pursues his daily round; Where Pity sheds sweet tears, and Love, In woodbine bower or birchen grove, Inflicts his tender wound.

--Who comes not hither ne'er shall know How beautiful the world below; Nor can he guess how lightly leaps The brook adown the rocky steeps.

Farewell, thou desolate Domain!

Hope, pointing to the cultured Plain, Carols like a shepherd boy; And who is she?--Can that be Joy!

Who, with a sun-beam for her guide, Smoothly skims the meadows wide; While Faith, from yonder opening cloud, To hill and vale proclaims aloud, 'Whate'er the weak may dread, the wicked dare, Thy lot, O man, is good, thy portion fair!'

_The Publishers, with permission of the Author, have added the following_

ITINERARY OF THE LAKES, FOR THE USE OF TOURISTS.

STAGES. MILES.

Lancaster to Kendal, by Kirkby Lonsdale 30 Lancaster to Kendal, by Burton 22 Lancaster to Kendal, by Milnthorpe 21 Lancaster to Ulverston, over Sands 21 Lancaster to Ulverston, by Levens Bridge 35-1/2 Ulverston to Hawkshead, by Coniston Water Head 19 Ulverston to Bowness, by Newby Bridge 17 Hawkshead to Ambleside 5 Hawkshead to Bowness 6 Kendal to Ambleside 14 Kendal to Ambleside, by Bowness 15 From and back to Ambleside round the two Langdales 18 Ambleside to Ullswater 10 Ambleside to Keswick 16-1/4 Keswick to Borrowdale, and round the Lake 12 Keswick to Borrowdale and b.u.t.termere 23 Keswick to Wastdale and Calder Bridge 27 Calder Bridge to b.u.t.termere and Keswick 29 Keswick, round Ba.s.senthwaite Lake 18 Keswick to Patterdale, Pooley Bridge, and Penrith 38 Keswick to Pooley Bridge and Penrith 24 Keswick to Penrith 17-1/2 Whitehaven to Keswick 27 Workington to Keswick 21 Excursion from Penrith to Hawes Water 27 Carlisle to Penrith 18 Penrith to Kendal 26

_Inns and Public Houses, when not mentioned, are marked thus *_.

LANCASTER to KENDAL, by Kirkby Lonsdale, 30 miles.

MILES. MILES.

5 Caton 5 2 Claughton 7 2 Hornby* 9 2 Melling 11 2 Tunstall 13 2 Burrow 15 2 Kirkby Lonsdale 17 13 Kendal 30

INNS--_Lancaster_: King's Arms, Commercial Inn, Royal Oak. _Kirkby Lonsdale_: Rose and Crown, Green Dragon.

LANCASTER to KENDAL, by Burton, 21-3/4 miles.

MILES. MILES.

10-3/4 Burton 10-3/4 4-3/4 Crooklands 15-1/2 1/2 End Moor* 16 5-3/4 Kendal 21-3/4

INNS: _Kendal_: King's Arms, Commercial Inn. _Burton_: Royal Oak, King's Arms.

LANCASTER to KENDAL, by Milnthorpe, 21-1/4/miles.

2-3/4 Slyne* 2-3/4 1-1/4 Bolton-le-Sands* 4 2 Carnforth* 6 2 Junction of the Milnthorpe and Burton roads 8 4 Hale* 12 1/2 Beethom* 12-1/2 1-1/4 Milnthorpe 13-3/4 1-1/4 Heversham* 15 1-1/2 Levens-Bridge 16-1/2 4-3/4 Kendal 21-1/4

INN--_Milnthorpe_: Cross Keys.

LANCASTER to ULVERSTON, over Sands, 21 miles.

3-1/2 Hest Bank* 3-1/2 1/4 Lancaster Sands 3-3/4 9 Kent's Bank 12-3/4 1 Lower Allithwaite 13-3/4 1-1/4 Flookburgh* 15 3/4 Cark 15-3/4 1/4 Leven Sands 16 5 Ulverston 21

INNS--_Ulverston_: Sun Inn, Bradyll's Arms.

LANCASTER to ULVERSTON, by Levens-Bridge, 35-1/2 miles.

12 Hale* 12 1/2 Beethom* 12-1/2 1-1/4 Milnthorpe 13-3/4 1-1/4 Heversham* 15 2-3/4 Levens-Bridge 16-1/2 4 Witherslack* 20-1/2 3 Lindal* 23 2 Newton* 25 2 Newby-Bridge* 27-1/2 2 Low Wood 29-1/2 3 Greenodd 32-1/2 3 Ulverston 35-1/2

ULVERSTON to HAWKSHEAD, by Coniston Water-Head, 19 miles.

6 Lowick-Bridge 6 2 Nibthwaite 8 8 Coniston Water-Head* 16 3 Hawkshead 19

INN--_Hawkshead_: Red Lion.

ULVERSTON to BOWNESS, by Newby-Bridge, 16 miles.

3 Greenodd 3 3 Low Wood 6 2 Newby-Bridge 8 8 Bowness 16

INNS--_Bowness_: White Lion, Crown Inn.

HAWKSHEAD to AMBLESIDE, 5 miles.

HAWKSHEAD to BOWNESS, 5-1/2 miles.

2 Sawrey 2 2 Windermere-ferry* 4 1-1/2 Bowness 5-1/2

KENDAL to AMBLESIDE, 13-1/2 miles.

5 Staveley* 5 1-1/2 Ings Chapel 6-1/2 2 Orrest-head 8-1/2 1-1/2 Troutbeck-Bridge* 10 2 Low Wood Inn 12 1-1/2 Ambleside 13-1/2

INNS--_Ambleside_: Salutation Hotel, Commercial Inn.

KENDAL to AMBLESIDE, by Bowness, 15 miles.

MILES. MILES.

4 Crook* 4 2 Gilpin-Bridge* 6 3 Bowness 9 2-1/2 Troutbeck-Bridge 11-1/2 2 Low Wood Inn 13-1/2 1-1/2 Ambleside 15

A Circuit from and back to AMBLESIDE, by Little and Great Langdale, 18 miles.

3 Skelwith-Bridge* 3 2 Colwith Cascade 5 3 Blea Tarn 8 3 Dungeon Ghyll 11 2 Langdale Chapel Stile* 13 5 By High Close and Rydal to Ambleside 18

AMBLESIDE to ULLSWATER, 10 miles.