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No locks, no bolts, here guard fuperfluous 
gold, 
No pamper’d flave curfes that pomp that feeds 
him ; 
No jealoufy, no fear, dims the fine eye 
Of ruftic health and female lovelinefs ; 
No loraly domination clouds his brow, 
To blaft the bloffom of domeftic peace ; 
Each is the other’s world ; and confideace, 
And fmiles of kindneis {peaking all the 
heart, 
Is Jove’s exhauftlefs ftore, on which they 
live. 
The hope of meeting gilds the parting hour 5 
And cares hang light, borne for a dearer 
felf. 
On the unguarded fill the children fit 
To watch at welcome eve their fire’s return, 
?Till the loud barking of the well-known 
dog 
Roufes their little feet; the winding lane, 
Uncheck’d by length’ning fhadows, quick 
they trace: 
Soon the tir’d arm forgets its wearinefs, 
And bears the prattler home: all toils are 
there 
O’erpaid, for love and peace are waiting there ; 
—’Tis all the virtuous dare to afk below. 
Thefe people lament much thei flux of 
gentry amongtt thefe. fcenes of nature and 
of peace ; though it is not the gueft that 
“‘tarrieth but a da whofe prefence 
they dread, but the gentlemen who build 
houfes, and relide amongft them. One of 
the inhabitants of thefe abodes monopo- 
lizes corn for his horfes and his poultry, 
which would make a whole parifh com. 
fortable. During the {carcity of laft win. 
ter (1795-6), twenty of what they term 
loads, at twenty fhillings per load, were 
confumed by the pouliry at a neighbour- 
ing feat. The man I converfed with ap- 
peared about thirty years of age, and he 
could recollect the time when not a fingle 
chaife was ever feen in the place, or could 
have approached it; and now the common 
phrafe is, ‘* ‘There is a terrible deal of 
quality !’’—The next morning, our whole 
party fet out on the lake ; the fcene was 
highly beautiful, and finely contrafted that 
of the preceding ey-ning. The fun fhcne 
with unclouded luftre, the lake perfectly 
ferene and tran{parent, every obje&i was 
reflected with the moft exact minutenefs, 
and the moffy beds, over which we failed, 
appeared as Vividas though there had Geen 
no intercepting medium. We failed to 
Low-wood. The fcrne contemplated 
from the bowling-green is rich and beau- 
tiful. Windermere extends from north 
to fouth about twelve or fourteen miles, 
and is in breadth from two to fix; it af- 
fumes a curving line, which adds greatly 
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to its beauty ; and is ornamented with nine 
iflands. Some of the fcenery on its banks 
is enriched with wood and f{cattered ha- 
bitations. We returned on the oppofite 
fide of the lake, and landed on Curwin’s 
Tfland, which occupies about thirty acres 
of ground, and is the largeft in this little 
The trim and neat ap- 
pearance of its borders feem fearcely in 
keeping with the furr-unding fcenery, and 
T felt half afraid of landing. But it isa 
delightful little paradife, and will become 
more interefting every year from the 
growth of the plantations : thefe are al- 
ready highly ornamental, and there are a 
few venerable old trees, which add digni- 
ty to groups of a modern growth; and 
when I heerd that a yew, which caught 
my attention, had been remembered by a 
man of eighty, in the ftate it then was, 
ever fince he could recolle&, it was im. 
poffible not to feel refpett for the hand 
that had left it untouched; though per- 
haps no genuine lover of nature vifits this 
fpot, without regretting that art has done 
fo much. We rowed to Crowhoim, a 
very interefting point, round which the 
lake {weeps, and almoft forms it into an 
ifland. A large old farm houfe, oversung 
by tall trees, which fkirt one half of the 
peninfula, ornaments the fcene. The 
cows were waiting around the door to be 
milked, and we gladly took our ftation on 
{ome faggots by the margin of the lake, 
waiting to partake the delicious beverage, 
A poftman arriving at a {pot apparently 
fhut out from the habitable world, would 
have furprifed us, had we not Raowi that 
it was the point from which paflengers are 
ferried acrofs the lake to the Kendall road, 
The ferryboat gives’ intereft to the fcene ; 
and while the fthades of evening drew 
around us, we faw its laft cargo tet fail. 
The back ground to this little fecluded 
fpot is formed of irregular majeftic rock, 
fome of whole points are enriched with thie 
gloffy holly, and the deeper thade of the 
venerable yew. We bade adieu to this 
fpot with regret, and filed towards Bow- 
nefs reluctantly, as it was our final ev. 
joym<nt of lake fcenery ; the next morn- 
ing being fixed for our return to Lancaf- 
ter. We afcended the bleak, harren, 
dreary hills on Kendol Moar, with fen. 
fations fomewhat limilar to thofe of the 
heroes we had fo often attended in our 
juvenile years in their vifits to the Elyfian 
fields, on re-afcending to the abodes of 
human care; and fhould hardly have 
borne the change, had we not, like them, 
hoped to return, when we might be per- 
mitted to make a longer ftay. 
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