Announces to the thirsty fields a boon
Dewy and fresh, till showers again shall fall.
FOOTNOTE:
[FV] "The 'tributary stream,' which forms the subject of this sonnet, is the Tarn Beck, which rises in Seathwaite Tarn, and joins the Duddon just opposite Newfield. Seathwaite Chapel itself is not on the Duddon, but on the Tarn Beck. The sonnet gives a perfect description of its leading characteristics.
Mr. Chattock has given an etching of the Tarn." (Herbert Rix.)
"If one stands upon the Pen and looks up the Duddon Vale, the
Field or two of brighter green, or plot
Of tillage-ground, that seemeth like a spot
Of stationary sunshine: