152/259 Composed just before my sister and I went to fetch Mary from Gallowhill, near Scarborough. *_Stanzas written in my Pocket-copy of Thomson's 'Castle of Indolence.'_ [V.] Composed in the Orchard, Grasmere, Town-End. Coleridge living with us much at the time, his son Hartley has said that his father's character and history are here preserved in a livelier way than in anything that has been written about him. |