![]() At Scottish home fires, and in Wordsworth’s childhood two centuries ago, “we pursued / Our home amusements by the warm peat-fire.” (Book I, end) Also as in Beaton, rural labor teaches ethics that the city may not here, young Wordy* rows, races against his fellows on a lake toward an island with the remains of a chapel “In such a race/ So ended, disappointment could be none,/…We rested in the shade, all pleased alike, / Conquered and conqueror. Beaton mysteries: unexpectedly linked by fuel. First read over a half-century ago, but chosen now by chance after two M.C. ![]()
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