There are also numerous allusions in Mrs. Wordsworth’s Journal to this early tour; _e.g._ under date August 13. “We left Meyringen; soon reached a sort of Hotel, which Wm. pointed out to us with great interest, as being the only spot where he and his friend Jones were ill used, during the course of their adventurous journey--a wild looking building, a little removed from the road, where the vale of Hasli ends.” Again, in describing the sunset from the woody hill Colline de Gibet, overlooking the two lakes of Brienz and Thun, at Interlaken, “with the loveliest of green vallies between us and Jungfrau,” “Surely William must have had this Paradise in his thoughts when he began his _Descriptive Sketches_-- Were there, below, a spot of holy ground, By Pain and her sad family unfound, etc. But no habitation was there among these rocky knolls, and tiny pastures. One fragment, something like a ruined convent, lurked under a steep, woody-fringed crag. What a Refuge for a pious Sisterhood!” Compare also the note to _Stanzas composed in the Simplon Pass_, vol. vi. p. 359.--ED. 1822 “THESE VALES WERE SADDENED WITH NO COMMON GLOOM” In the _Memoirs of William Wordsworth_ by his nephew (the late Bishop of Lincoln) vol. i. chap. xxx. the following occurs as an addendum transferred to the footnotes:-- “The first six lines of an epitaph in Grasmere Church were also his composition. The elegant marble tablet on which they were engraved was designed by Sir Francis Chantry, and prepared by Allan Cunningham, 1822. It is over the chancel door.” The following is the Inscription:-- In the Burial Ground of this Church are deposited the remains of JEMIMA ANNE DEBORAH, second daughter of Sir Egerton Brydges, of Denton Court, Kent, Bart. She departed this life at the Ivy Cottage, Rydal, May 25th 1822, aged 28 years. This memorial is erected by her husband EDWARD QUILLINAN. The entire sonnet, of which Wordsworth wrote the “first six lines,” is as follows:--