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Some of these reunions took place in the lofty hotels moored like a sonorously named fleet of battle-ships along the upper reaches of the West Side: the Olympian, the Incandescent, the Ormolu; while others, perhaps the more exclusive, were held in the equally lofty but more romantically styled apartment-houses: the Parthenon, the Tintern Abbey or the Lido.
And the volume ended with a poem, which Wordsworth composed in 1798, in one day, during a tour with his sister to Tintern and Chepstow. The Lines written above Tintern Abbey have become, as it were, the locus classicus or consecrated formulary of the Wordsworthian faith. They say in brief what it is the work of the poet's biographer to say in detail.
Nature never looked the same since he ran his Excursion-train through the Lake country special service to Tintern and Yarrow." "This is slightly profane." "No it only means that if you want Nature you musn't go to the poets of Nature. They've humanized it. I wouldn't mind that, if they hadn't womanized it, too." "That only means that they loved it," she said softly.
Chepstow was then bestowed upon the De Clares, who founded Tintern Abbey, and it afterwards passed by marriage to the Bigod family. Chepstow in the Civil War was held for the king, and surrendered to the Parliamentary troops. Soon afterwards it was surprised at the western gate and retaken. Cromwell then besieged it, but, the siege proving protracted, he left Colonel Ewer in charge.
I love to think that I am drifting at will through this land of gardens and apple blossom. And, just think of it three cathedrals in one day a Minster for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with Tintern Abbey thrown in for afternoon tea.
I like to be disagreed with." Her voice shook a little. "You must make allowances for an old woman who is disappointed," said Lady Tintern. John said nothing, but his bright hazel eyes, looking down on the small, bent figure, grew suddenly gentle and sympathetic. "It is a pleasure to be able to congratulate somebody," she said, returning his look. "I congratulate you and Lady Mary." "Thank you."
Not a few, perhaps, might, by their admiration of the Lines written near Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Wye, those Left upon a Yew Tree Seat, The Old Cumberland Beggar, and Ruth, have been gradually led to peruse with kindred feeling The Brothers, the Hart-leap Well, and whatever other poems in that collection may be described as holding a middle place between those written in the highest and those in the humblest style; as for instance between the Tintern Abbey, and The Thorn, or Simon Lee.
"Peter is a boy," said Lady Mary, quickly; "and Sarah, for all practical purposes, is ten years older than he. She is only amusing herself. Lady Tintern is much more ambitious for her than I am for Peter." "How you talk, Mary!" said Miss Crewys, indignantly. "She is hardly twenty years of age, and the most designing monkey that ever lived. And Peter is a fine young man. A boy, indeed!
All things seem to him to feel pure joy in existence: "The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare." It was also his poetic creed that Nature could bring to human hearts a message of solace and companionship. His poem, Lines composed a Short Distance above Tintern Abbey, is a remarkable exposition of this faith.
There was Wordsworth, he knew something of this still machinery, this "kiss of toothèd wheels" within the soul of man. Listen to him, he had been to Tintern Abbey and heard once more the "soft inland murmur" of the Wye;
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