Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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| memorial, Wythburn | ||
| locality:- | Wythburn | |
| civil parish:- | St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | memorial | |
| coordinates:- | NY32401363 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3213 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY31 | |
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 BLQ07.jpg Inscribed slate:- "A RECORD / OF THE TWO WALKS FROM HENCE / OVER THE ARMBOTH FELLS / JULY 1833-43 / WHICH INSPIRED / MATTHEW ARNOLD'S POEM / 'RESIGNATION.' / AND IN / REVERENT MEMORY OF THE POET / BORN 24 DEC. 1822. / DIED 16 APRIL 1888. / [WE] LEFT JUST TEN YEARS SINCE, YOU SAY / THAT WAY-SIDE INN WE LEFT TO-DAY. / AND NOW IN FRONT BEHOLD OUTSPREAD / THOSE UPPER REGIONS WE MUST TREAD / MILD HOLLOWS, AND CLEAR HEATHY SWELLS, / THE CHEERFUL SILENCE OF THE FELLS. / M.A. // H.D.R." (Close up photos are just as indistinct! lichen everywhere.) (taken 15.2.2006) |
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