Back I cast a look, And lingered near the door a little space, Then sought with quiet heart my distant home.
* * * * * FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT [Footnote A: On the road from Kendal to Windermere .-- Ed.] [Footnote B: At the Ferry below Bowness .-- Ed.] [Footnote C: From the Ferry over the ridge to Sawrey .-- Ed.] [Footnote D: The Vale of Esthwaite .-- Ed.] [Footnote E: Hawkshead Church; an old Norman structure, built in 1160, the year of the foundation of Furness Abbey.

It is no longer "snow-white," a so-called Restoration having taken place within recent years, on architectural principles.

The plaster is stripped from the outside of the church, which is now of a dull stone colour.
"Apart from poetic sentiment," wrote Dr.Cradock (the late Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford), "it may be doubted whether the pale colour, still preserved at Grasmere and other churches in the district, does not better harmonize with the scenery and atmosphere of the Lake country.".
The most interesting feature in the interior is the private chapel of Archbishop Sandys .-- Ed.] [Footnote F: Hawkshead Church is a conspicuous object as you approach the town, whether by the Ambleside road, or from Sawrey.

It is the latter approach that is here described .-- Ed.] [Footnote G: Anne Tyson,--Ed.] [Footnote H: Anne Tyson seems to have removed from Hawkshead village to Colthouse, on the opposite side of the Vale, and lived there for some time before her death.

Along with Dr.Cradock I examined the Parish Registers of Hawkshead in the autumn of 1882, and we found the following entry belonging to the year 1796.
"Anne Tyson of Colthouse, widow, died May 25th buried 28th, in Churchyard, aged 83." Her removal to Colthouse is confirmed, in a curious way, by a reminiscence of William Wordsworth's (the poet's son), who told me that if asked where the dame's house was, he would have pointed to a spot on the eastern side of the valley, and out of the village altogether; his father having taken him from Rydal Mount to Hawkshead when a mere boy, and pointed out that spot.