Note 1 — EYAM. [1]

This poem was written August 1788, on a journey through Derbyshire, to a music-meeting at Sheffield. The author’s father was then Rector of Eyam, an extensive village, that runs along a mountainous terrace, in one of the highest parts of the Peak. She was born there, and there past the first seven years of her life, and often, in future periods of her youth and riper years, visited the place with her father, on several weeks residence. The middle part of the village is built on the edge of a deep dell, which has very picturesque and beautiful features.