Then fervently would I entreat 55
Our gracious God to guide thy feet
Back to the peaceful sunny cot,
Where thou so oft hast blessed thy lot.
[395] I owe my knowledge of this and the following poem to the nephew of Mrs. Wordsworth, the Reverend Thomas Hutchinson of Kimbolton, Herefordshire, who wrote: “The two following poems were found among his papers on the demise of Mr. Monkhouse—a first cousin of Wordsworth; the first in the hand-writing of Wordsworth’s wife, and the second of her daughter.”—Ed.
HOLIDAY AT GWERNDWFFNANT, MAY 1826
IRREGULAR STANZAS
By Dorothy Wordsworth
You’re here for one long vernal day;
We’ll give it all to social play,
Though forty years have rolled away