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 から、その日（４月15日 木曜日）のDorothy の日記の全文を引用しておきます。 

It  was  a  threatening, misty morning, but mild.  We set off after dinner from   Eusemere.   Mrs. Clarkson  went  a  short way with us, but turned back.  The wind was furious,  and  we thought  we  must  have returned.  We first rested in the large boat‐house, then under a furze bush opposite Mr. Clarkson's.  Saw the plough going  in the field.  The wind  seized  our breath.  The Lake was rough.  There was a boat  by   itself   floating  in the middle   of  the bay  below  Water Millock.  We rested again in the  Water Millock Lane. The hawthorns are black and green, the birches here and there greenish, but there is yet more of purple to be seen on the twigs. We got over into a field to avoid some cows─people working. A few primroses by the roadside─woodsorrel flower, the anemone,  scentless violets, straw‐ berries, and that starry, yellow flower which  Mrs. C. calls pile wort. When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the water‐side. We fancied that the lake had floated the seeds ashore, and that  the little colony  had so sprung up.  But as we went along there were more and yet more ;  and at last, under the boughs of  the trees,  we saw that  there was a long belt of them  along the shore,  about the breadth of a country turnpike road.  I never saw daffodils so beautiful.  They grew among the mossy stones  about and about them ; some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness ; and the rest  tossed  and  reeled  and  danced,  and seemed  as  if they  verily laughed with the wind, that blew upon them  over the lake ; they looked so gay, ever glancing, ever changing.  This wind blew directly over the lake to them. There was here and there a little knot, and a few stragglers a few yards higher up ;  but they were so few as not to disturb  the simplicity, unity, and life of that one busy highway.  We rested again and again.  The bays were stormy, and we heard the waves at  different distances, and in the middle of the  water, like the sea. Rain came on ─we were wet when we reached Luff's, but we called in. Luckily all was chearless  [sic]  and gloomy, so we faced the storm ─ we must have been wet if we had waited ─ put on dry clothes at Dobson's. I was very kindly treated by a young woman,  the landlady looked sour,  but  it is her way. She gave us a goodish supper, excellent ham and potatoes. We paid 7/‐ when   we  came away.  William  was  sitting  by   a   bright fire when I came downstairs. He soon made his way to the library, piled up in a corner of the window. He brought out a volume of  Enfield's Speaker, another miscellany, and an odd volume of  Congreve's plays.  We had a glass of  warm rum and water.   We  enjoyed ourselves, and  wished  for Mary  [Hutchinson, whom William married that October].   It rained and blew, when we went to bed. N.B. Deer in Gowbarrow Park like skeletons. 
            (Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal ─ Thursday 15 April 1802)     　

　　　　　　　　　５． ワーズワース（William Wordsworth）＝イギリスの桂冠詩人。湖畔詩人の一
　　　　　　 　　　 　 　　　　人で、コールリッジとの共著で「抒情歌謡集」を出版し、とりわけ自然を歌う
                    　　　　　　ロマン主義の中心となった。代表作に自伝的長詩「序曲」。 (1770 ─ 1850)    
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　                           　　　　　　　　　　　　　　       （『広辞苑』第６版による）
　　　　　　         　　　    ※　桂冠詩人（けいかん・しじん）＝[ poet luareate ] （古代ギリシャですぐれた
 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　詩人に月桂冠を与えたことから）イギリスで国王から任命され、王室の
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 慶弔に公的な詩を作ることを義務とした詩人。現在は慶弔の詩は任意
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 となり、終身年俸を与えられる名誉職。欽定（きんてい）詩宗。　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　（『大辞林』第二版による）

           　　　　　 ６． 参考までに、岩波文庫『イギリス名詩選』（平井正穂編、1990年２月16日第１刷
　　　　　　　　　　　発行）所収の“The Daffodils ”を掲げておきます。