Note 225 — Chapter VIII · ROMANTICISM AND NATURE
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If I had had this consecration Wordsworth says, addressing Peele Castle,
I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile, Amid a world how different from this! Beside a sea that could not cease to smile; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. … A Picture had it been of lasting ease, Elysian quiet, without toil or strife, etc. Elegiac Stanzas suggested by a picture of Peele Castle in a storm.