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We walked up to the house and stood some minutes watching the swallows that flew about… — Dorothy Wordsworth

Personal journal

We walked up to the house and stood some minutes watching the swallows that flew about restlessly, and flung their shadows upon the sunbright walls of the old building; the shadows glanced and twinkled, interchanged and crossed each other, expanded and shrunk up, appeared and disappeared every instant.

Dorothy Wordsworth
1803
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Personal journal
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1803
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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Wordsworth, Dorothy. "Journal entry 16 Aug. 1803." Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland. Yale University Press, 1997.
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Wordsworth, Dorothy. Journal Entry. 16 Aug. 1803.

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