{"id":34531,"date":"2016-06-24T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T22:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=34531"},"modified":"2016-06-24T16:11:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T22:11:33","slug":"trailing-clouds-of-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/06\/trailing-clouds-of-glory.html","title":{"rendered":"“Trailing clouds of glory”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Grasmere,<\/a>
A view of Grasmere, in the Lake District (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Soul that rises with us, our life\u2019s Star,<\/td>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a060<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hath had elsewhere its setting,<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And cometh from afar:<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Not in entire forgetfulness,<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And not in utter nakedness,<\/td>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
But trailing clouds of glory do we come<\/td>\n<\/a>\u00a0\u00a065<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0From God, who is our home:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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There was a time when the passage above, from William Wordsworth\u2019s \u201cOde: Intimations of Immortality from Early Childhood,\u201d was very well known to Latter-day Saints. \u00a0This was because Elder Richard L. Evans of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was an Anglophile and a lover of English literature, and because, along with Claire Whittaker and Scott Whittaker, he wrote the script for Man\u2019s Search for Happiness<\/em>, the film that was shown in the Mormon Pavilion at the 1964 World\u2019s Fair in New York City.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know how many members of the Church are familiar with the passage\u00a0today, but it\u2019s still a marvelous statement of belief in at least some form of pre-mortal existence.<\/p>\n

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\"Wordsworth's<\/a>
Dove Cottage, in the village of Grasmere (Wikimedia CC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Today, we made our obligatory pilgrimage to Dove Cottage, in the village of Grasmere, which is famous as the home between 1799 and 1808 of William Wordsworth; his wife, Mary; and his writer-sister, Dorothy. \u00a0Much of Wordsworth\u2019s most famous poetry, including \u201cIntimations of Immortality\u201d and \u201cI Wandered Lonely as a Cloud\u201d (aka \u201cDaffodils\u201d)<\/a>, came from this place of \u201cplain living, but high thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dove Cottage would be sacred\u00a0enough to\u00a0devotees of English literature were it only for the residence there of the Wordsworths. \u00a0But it rapidly became a center of English Romanticism, hosting frequent visits and sometimes lengthy stays by such people as Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/a>, Robert Southey<\/a>, Sir Walter Scott<\/a>, Charles<\/a> and Mary Lamb<\/a>, Thomas De Quincey<\/a>, and, added into the bargain, the notable chemist Sir Humphry Davy<\/a>. \u00a0In fact, De Quincey succeeded to the ownership of Dove Cottage, which he retained from 1809 to 1835.<\/p>\n

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\"Wordsworth's<\/a>
The Wordsworth family plot at St. Oswald\u2019s Church, in Grasmere village. \u00a0The gravestone for William and his wife Mary is second from the right. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We also paid our respects at the Wordsworth cemetery plot, where\u00a0William and Mary and Dorothy are buried. \u00a0It\u2019s a wonderful place, located behind St. Oswald\u2019s Church in Grasmere village, on the bank of the\u00a0quiet River Rothay, shaded by yew trees that were planted by William himself.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve always found it intensely moving.<\/p>\n

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\"Grasmere's<\/a>
St. Oswald\u2019s Church, Grasmere (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A word about the church: \u00a0The present St. Oswald\u2019s Church dates from the fourteenth century, but it stands on or near the site where the first church was founded by King Oswald of Northumbria in 642, and it is dedicated to him. \u00a0This is the very same Oswald who, a zealous Christian,\u00a0asked the authorities on the island of Iona, off the western coast of Scotland, to send a missionary\u00a0to his kingdom in order to help convert his subjects to the faith. \u00a0They sent the future St. Aidan, and it was Oswald who gave the island of Lindisfarne to Aidan as the base for his activities. \u00a0And that\u2019s the beginning of the story of why it\u2019s now called \u201cHoly Island.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"River<\/a>
The River Rothay (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Finally, before heading back for the evening, we did the White Moss Forest walk between Rydal Water and Grasmere. \u00a0Amusingly, we watched a very good swimmer as he worked his way toward us, and then, before he jogged off along the trail, had a relatively lengthy conversation with him. \u00a0He turned out to be a triathlete, a local businessman, and . . . a Jehovah\u2019s Witness.<\/p>\n

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Posted from Brockwood Hall, Cumbria, England<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life\u2019s Star, \u00a0\u00a060 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hath had elsewhere its setting, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And cometh from afar: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Not in entire forgetfulness, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come \u00a0\u00a065 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0From God, who is our home: \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n"Trailing clouds of glory"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"    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