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on and about the lake, occasionally trying 

 for a pike in its waters, let the tourist take a 

 boat to Low-wood, about four miles above 

 Bowness, and thence walk to Ambleside, a 

 distance of little more than two miles. After 

 having visited from Ambleside the lakes of 

 Rydal and Grasmere, taken a view of the 

 vale of Langdale, and fished in the Bratha, 

 let the angler prepare for his return home- 

 ward ; but not until he has seen Words- 

 worth, the poet eloquent in truth's simplest 

 and purest language; who celebrates not the 

 splendid deeds of the hero, but whose de- 

 light it is, in summer shade, 



" To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts ; " 



who, in his wanderings among the hills, holds 

 sweet communing with the great and glo- 

 rious works of Nature, and who, in the ful- 

 ness of her inspiration, 



" Murmurs near the running brooks 

 A music sweeter than their own.' 7 



