His native vale and patrimonial fields
Than others have, for Michael had liv’d on
Childless, until the time when he began
To look towards the shutting in of life.
In this MS. book there are also some of the original stanzas of Ruth, with a few variations of text.—Ed.
[345] Compare the first line of those Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone, the largest of a Heap lying near a deserted Quarry, upon one of the Islands at Rydal, vol. ii. p. 63.—Ed.
[346] Stone Arthur. See, in the “Poems on the Naming of Places,” the one beginning—
There is an Eminence,
Ed.
[347] Bottom is a common Cumbrian word for valley.—Ed.