134. EASEDALE. Near Grasmere. DUNMAIL-RAISE. The pass leading from
Grasmere to Keswick. RAISE. A provincial word meaning "an ascent."
139. THE EVENING STAR. This name was actually given to a neighboring
house.
143-152. The love of Michael for Luke is inwrought with his love for
his home and for the land which surrounds it. These he desires at his
death to hand down unencumbered to his son. "I have attempted,"
Wordsworth wrote to Poole, "to give a picture of a man of strong mind
and lively sensibility, agitated by two of the most powerful affections
of the human heart--the parental affection and the love of property,
_landed_ property, including the feelings of inheritance, home and
personal and family independence."