[Stones] Measured from side to side: Stukeley to Wordsworth

[Thelma Wilcox]

I would just like to say that whether its Stukeley's words or Wordsworth's their descriptive ability conjures up beautiful images of  the natural world or the world of death, and I still think you can't beat a good 18th or 19th antiquarian, they may have got it gloriously wrong but we would be so much poorer if they had'nt taken the time to write about it.  ;) and I really enjoyed that poem Littlestone..
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  From: littlestone 
  To: Stones at henge.org.uk 
  Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:47 AM
  Subject: [Stones] Measured from side to side: Stukeley to Wordsworth


  High on a mountain's highest ridge,
  Where oft the stormy winter gale
  Cuts like a scythe, while through the clouds
  It sweeps from vale to vale;
  Not five yards from the mountain-path,
  This thorn you on your left espy;
  And to the left, three yards beyond,
  You see a little muddy pond
  Of water, never dry;
  I've measured it from side to side:
  'Tis three feet long, and two feet wide.


  And close beside this aged thorn,
  There is a fresh and lovely sight,
  A beauteous heap, a hill of moss,
  Just half a foot in height.
  All lovely colours there you see,
  All colours that were ever seen,
  And mossy network too is there,
  As if by hand of lady fair
  The work had woven been,
  And cups, the darlings of the eye,
  So deep is their vermilion dye.


  Ah me! what lovely tints are there!
  Of olive-green and scarlet bright,
  In spikes, in branches, and in stars,
  Green, red, and pearly white.
  This heap of earth o'ergrown with moss,
  Which close beside the thorn you see,
  So fresh in all its beauteous dyes,
  Is like an infant's grave in size
  As like as like can be:
  But never, never any where,
  An infant's grave was half so fair.*

  William Wordsworth





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