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"I have often stood on some mountain peak, some Cumbrian or Alpine hill, over which the dim mists rolled; and suddenly, through one mighty rent in that cloudy curtain, I have seen the blue heaven in all its beauty, and, far below my feet, the rivers and cities and cornfields of the plain sparkled in the heavenly sunlight." That is, in a figure, the vision for which we must hope and pray.
Thenceforward he and Robert kept up a lively antiquarian talk on the traces of Norse settlement in the Cumbrian valleys, which lasted till the ladies left the dining-room. As Catherine Leyburn went out Elsmere stood holding the door open. She could not help raising her eyes upon him, eyes full of a half-timid half-grateful friendliness. His own returned her look with interest.
And they who know what makes the strength of nations need wish nothing better than that the temper which he saw and honoured among the Cumbrian dales should be the temper of all England, now and for ever. Our discussion of Wordsworth's form of Natural Religion has led us back by no forced transition to the simple life which he described and shared.
We shall see as we proceed how a deepening insight into the lives of the peasantry around him, the happiness and virtue of simple Cumbrian homes, restored to the poet a serener confidence in human nature, amid all the shame and downfall of such hopes in France.
The objects of his boyish idealization had been Cumbrian shepherds a race whose personality seems to melt into Nature's who are united as intimately with moor and mountain as the petrel with the sea.
Our reason for going back to these old Cumbrian remembrances will be found in what follows. Deeply incensed at the insults we had been obliged to put up with for years, brooding oftentimes over 'Wrongs unredress'd, and insults unaveng'd, we asked ourselves Is vengeance hopeless? And at length we hit upon the following scheme of retribution. This it is which we propose as applicable to Greece.
These Cumbrian Welshmen called their chief town Caer Luel, or something of the sort; and there is some reason for believing that it was the capital of the historical Arthur, if any Arthur ever existed, though later ages transferred the legend of the British hero to Caerleon-upon-Usk, after men had begun to forget that the region between the Clyde and the Mersey had once been true Welsh soil.
The speaker was clearly a Cumbrian. "Shaf!" replied his companion, in a kind of whisper, "he's a pauchtie clot-heed. I'll have him at Haribee in a crack." The second speaker was as clearly a Scot who was struggling against the danger there might be of his speech bewraying him. "Well, you're pretty smart on 'im. I never could rightly make aught of thy hate of 'im." "Tut, man, live and learn.
"A sture woife, and a dour," said one Cumbrian peasant, as he clattered by in his wooden brogues, with a noise like the trampling of a dray-horse. "She has gone to ho master, with ho's name in her mouth," said another; "Shame the country should be harried wi' Scotch witches and Scotch bitches this gate but I say hang and drown."
Then he thought of her no more. But when the child had come to man's estate, when he was encased in a network of muscle like elastic steel wires, when stature and strength had made him alike formidable and splendid, when the development of his temperament illustrated virtues so stanch that they seemed the complement of his physical endowment and a part of his resolute personality, the old trader thought of the boy's father, and thought of him daily how the sturdy Cumbrian yeoman would have rejoiced in so stalwart a son!
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