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Updated: May 21, 2025
It is now covered with garden-terraces, the present wall crossing from Mount Zion on the south to Mount Moriah on the east.
It is indisputable that his mind and manners were hurt by the prominence which his life at the Lakes a life very public, under the name of seclusion gave, in his own eyes; to his own works and conversation; but he was less absorbed in his own objects, less solemn, less severed from ordinary men than is supposed, and has been given out by strangers, who, to the number of eight hundred in a year, have been received by him with a bow, asked to see the garden-terraces where he had meditated this and that work, and dismissed with another bow, and good wishes for their health and pleasure, the host having, for the most part, not heard, or not attended to, the name of his visitor.
I thought much of the stately, simple, self-absorbed poet, whom somehow one never thinks of as having been young; the lines of Milton haunted me, as I moved about the rooms, the garden-terraces: "In this mount he appeared; under this tree Stood visible; among these pines his voice I heard; here with him at this fountain talked."
Cheerfully looking down on its garden-terraces, stairs, Greek statues, and against the free sky: perhaps we may visit it in time coming, and take a more special view. In the Years now on hand, Friedrich, I think, did not much practically live there, only shifted thither now and then.
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