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| Brothers' Parting Stone, Patterdale | ||
| Brothers' Parting Stone | ||
| Stone of Parting | ||
| locality:- | Grisedale | |
| civil parish:- | Patterdale (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | stone | |
| locality type:- | memorial (?) | |
| coordinates:- | NY35231234 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3512 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY31 | |
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| hearsay:- |
The stone is where William and Dorothy Wordsworth parted from their brother John Wordsworth,
29 September 1800. Dorothy Wordsworth records this:- |
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| "It was a fine day, showery, but with sunshine and fine clouds. Poor fellow my heart
was right sad. I could not help thinking, we should see him again, because he was
only going to Penrith." |
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| From Penrith, John Wordsworth went to command the Earl of Abergavenny. They met again
in London, 1802. John was drowned when his ship was wrecked oof the coast of Dorset,
1805. In June 1805, William and Dorothy Wordsworth visited this place again, and the
poet wrote Elegaic Verses in Memory of My Brother. Canon H D Rawnsley arranged for
some lines from these verses to be inscribed on the rock, 1882:- |
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| "Here did we stop; and here looked round While each into himself descends, For that last thought of parting Friends That is not to be found." |
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| "- Brother and friend, if verse of mine Have power to make thy virtues known, Then let a monumental Stone Stand - Sacred as a Shrine;" |
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| hearsay:- |
There was a stone here, inscribed in memory of the parting of William Wordsworth and
his brother John, 1800. John was drowned when his ship, The Earl of Abergavenny, was
wrecked off Portland Bill, Dorset, 5 February 1805. |
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