{"product_id":"helvellyn-by-scott-linocut-poem-print","title":"Helvellyn by Scott — Linocut Poem Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1805 Charles Gough fell to his death on Helvellyn, and his little dog stayed by his body for three months until he was found. Walter Scott wrote this poem that year. It is set here in full beside a linocut of Striding Edge and Red Tarn, for walkers and dog lovers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"poem-title\" style=\"text-align:center\"\u003eHelvellyn\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"poem-credit\" style=\"text-align:center;letter-spacing:.08em\"\u003eSir Walter Scott, 1805\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"poem-text\" style=\"text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:1.25em 0\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI climbed the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn,\u003cbr\u003eLakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide;\u003cbr\u003eAll was still, save by fits, when the eagle was yelling,\u003cbr\u003eAnd starting around me the echoes replied.\u003cbr\u003eOn the right, Striden-edge round the Red-tarn was bending,\u003cbr\u003eAnd Catchedicam its left verge was defending,\u003cbr\u003eOne huge, nameless rock in the front was ascending,\u003cbr\u003eWhen I marked the sad spot where the wanderer had died.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark green was that spot mid the brown mountain heather,\u003cbr\u003eWhere the pilgrim of nature lay stretched in decay,\u003cbr\u003eLike the corpse of an outcast abandoned to weather,\u003cbr\u003eTill the mountain-winds wasted the tenantless clay.\u003cbr\u003eNor yet quite deserted, though lonely extended,\u003cbr\u003eFor, faithful in death, his mute favourite attended,\u003cbr\u003eThe much-loved remains of her master defended,\u003cbr\u003eAnd chased the hill-fox and the raven away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow long didst thou think that his silence was slumber?\u003cbr\u003eWhen the wind waved his garment, how oft didst thou start?\u003cbr\u003eHow many long days and long weeks didst thou number,\u003cbr\u003eEre he faded before thee, the friend of thy heart?\u003cbr\u003eAnd, oh! was it meet, that—no requiem read o'er him,\u003cbr\u003eNo mother to weep, and no friend to deplore him,\u003cbr\u003eAnd thou, little guardian, alone stretched before him—\u003cbr\u003eUnhonoured the pilgrim from life should depart?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a prince to the fate of the peasant has yielded,\u003cbr\u003eThe tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall;\u003cbr\u003eWith scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded,\u003cbr\u003eAnd pages stand mute by the canopied pall;\u003cbr\u003eThrough the courts, at deep midnight, the torches are gleaming;\u003cbr\u003eIn the proudly arched chapel the banners are beaming;\u003cbr\u003eFar adown the long aisle sacred music is streaming,\u003cbr\u003eLamenting a chief of the people should fall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut meeter for thee, gentle lover of nature,\u003cbr\u003eTo lay down thy head like the meek mountain lamb,\u003cbr\u003eWhen, wildered, he drops from some cliff huge in stature,\u003cbr\u003eAnd draws his last sob by the side of his dam.\u003cbr\u003eAnd more stately thy couch by this desert lake lying,\u003cbr\u003eThy obsequies sung by the grey plover flying,\u003cbr\u003eWith but one faithful friend to witness thy dying\u003cbr\u003eIn the arms of Helvellyn and Catchedicam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print.\u003c\/strong\u003e A4 (21 x 29.7cm) or A3 (29.7 x 42cm). Framed in a solid wood moulding in black, white or natural wood, with shatterproof acrylic glazing and hanging fixtures fitted, or unframed on 200gsm fine-art paper, sent flat and ready for a frame of your own. 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