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Durham / Re: Dent Family of Romaldkirk
« on: Saturday 21 January 12 22:21 GMT (UK) »
Has anyone come across this before? I gather my grandmother Mary Dent was brought up at Grains o Beck after something befell her parents-I wonder if it was this? Here are a few verses from Tragedy of the Fells, about an event from 1892
Now Grains o’ Beck is know so well,
By Lune it stands and near the fell,
Oft mantled with the snow,
The people too are widely known
Remembered for their kindness shown
To travellers high and low.
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Two miles or more they were away,
When John Dent did so sadly say
“My strength is at an end”:
As there he stood, or rather reeled,
The others promptly, for too shield
From falling, aid did lend.
Then to the wall by the Hurth end,
John’s mortal, mournful march did end,
On earth no more to roam:
From thence another escort then
(But ‘twas not human not of men)
Was to convey him home.
Now Grains o’ Beck is know so well,
By Lune it stands and near the fell,
Oft mantled with the snow,
The people too are widely known
Remembered for their kindness shown
To travellers high and low.
..........................................
Two miles or more they were away,
When John Dent did so sadly say
“My strength is at an end”:
As there he stood, or rather reeled,
The others promptly, for too shield
From falling, aid did lend.
Then to the wall by the Hurth end,
John’s mortal, mournful march did end,
On earth no more to roam:
From thence another escort then
(But ‘twas not human not of men)
Was to convey him home.