Were there, below, a spot of holy ground,
By Pain and her sad family unfound, etc.
But no habitation was there among these rocky knolls, and tiny pastures. One fragment, something like a ruined convent, lurked under a steep, woody-fringed crag. What a Refuge for a pious Sisterhood!” Compare also the note to Stanzas composed in the Simplon Pass, vol. vi. p. 359.—Ed.
1822
“THESE VALES WERE SADDENED WITH NO COMMON GLOOM”
In the Memoirs of William Wordsworth by his nephew (the late Bishop of Lincoln) vol. i. chap. xxx. the following occurs as an addendum transferred to the footnotes:—
“The first six lines of an epitaph in Grasmere Church were also his composition. The elegant marble tablet on which they were engraved was designed by Sir Francis Chantry, and prepared by Allan Cunningham, 1822. It is over the chancel door.”
The following is the Inscription:—
In the Burial Ground
of this Church are deposited the remains of
Jemima Anne Deborah,
second daughter of
Sir Egerton Brydges, of Denton Court, Kent, Bart.
She departed this life at the Ivy Cottage, Rydal,
May 25th 1822, aged 28 years.
This memorial is erected by her husband
Edward Quillinan.