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But it may be feared that it has also shifted the incidence of Wordsworth's arguments in a more sinister manner, by vastly increasing the number of those homes where domestic influence of the kind which the poet saw around him at Rydal is altogether wanting and school is the best avenue even to moral well-being.
The lake and all the parks and grounds around belong to Sir Richard le Fleming, who is Lord of the Manor and of a very ancient family in those regions. We presently came to a fine old crag by the shore, up which were some friendly steps; and we were entirely sure that Wordsworth had often gone up there and looked off upon his beloved Rydal from the summit.
Hawkshead and Rydal, then, may be considered as the poet's principal centres, and the scenery in their neighbourhood has received his most frequent attention. The Duddon, a seldom-visited stream on the south-west border of the Lake-district, has been traced by him from source to outfall in a series of sonnets.
Such a sight seen from Rydal Mount in 1818 afforded once more the needed stimulus, and evoked that "Evening Ode, composed on an evening of extraordinary splendour and beauty," which is the last considerable production of Wordsworth's genius. In this ode we recognize the peculiar gift of reproducing with magical simplicity as it were the inmost virtue of natural phenomena.
Vain authors, publisher's men, may write as they like about Shakespeare's country, or Scott's country, or Carlyle's country, or Crockett's country, but 'Oh, good gigantic smile of the brown old earth! the land laughs at the delusions of the men who hurriedly cross its surface. 'Rydal and Fairfield are there, In the shadow Wordsworth lies dead.
'It must be grand never to think what you spend. Captain Marsworth was a trifle taken aback by the remark, as Sir William was barely a couple of yards away. 'Yes, I daresay it's convenient, he said, lightly. 'And what do you find to do with yourself at Rydal? Bridget informed him briefly that she was correcting some proof-sheets for a friend, and would then have an index to make.
RYDAL MOUNT, Wordsworth's residence for many years, stands a little above the chapel erected by Lady le Fleming. Mrs. Hemans describes it as "a lovely cottage-like building, almost hidden by a profusion of roses and ivy."
'We are coming home to-morrow after they bury him in the cemetery here. Please get Hester whatever she may be doing to throw it up, and come and meet us. She is the only person who can help Nelly now for a bit Nelly pines for Rydal where they were together. She would go to Hester's cottage. Tell Hester. 'Why, old boy, do such things happen?
'I never was happier in my life, answered Hammond. He was standing on higher ground, with Mary at his elbow, pointing out and expatiating upon the details of the prospect. There were the lakes Grasmere, a disk of shining blue; Rydal, a patch of silver; and Windermere winding amidst a labyrinth of wooded hills. 'Aren't you tired? asked Maulevrier. 'Not a whit.
All the other servants had been despatched by coach to her ladyship's favourite retreat in Westmoreland, within a few miles of the Laureate's home at Rydal Mount, and James Steadman was charged with the whole responsibility of her ladyship's travelling arrangements.
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