Rydal Bower
June 23, 2016Oh! many a time have I, a five years’ Child,
A naked Boy, in one delightful Rill,
A little Mill-race sever’d from his stream,
Made one long bathing of a summer’s day,
Bask’d in the sun, and plunged, and bask’d again
Alternate all a summer’s day.
- From The Prelude – ‘Childhood’ by William Wordsworth, 1805.