Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.

Rydal

Inscription Intended for a Stone in the Grounds of Rydal Mount

By William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

IN these fair vales hath many a tree

At Wordsworth’s suit been spared;

And from the builder’s hand this stone,

For some rude beauty of its own,

Was rescued by the bard:

So let it rest; and time will come

When here the tender-hearted

May heave a gentle sigh for him,

As one of the departed.