Roon an roon the rugged rucks
The rapid rascal ran
Nut a car fo any supposd sarfety
In hyse gloryous dharncing marjesty


Heels held high on Hardknott Pass, named after Harthr Knutr, a hard and harsh craggy hill where a road twists and winds still that is known as Hard Knott fell and Quattuor Hill.

East to West Hardknott Pass runs from Eskdale to the Duddon Valley in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria, England. A view into the deep dark bosom of the night of a very slow Winter dawning.

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Hardknott Roman Fort English Heritage
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Hardknott Roman Fort
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The Fort at River's Bend
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Roman Lake District Audio Guides
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Hardknott mentioned in this Sonnet.
William Wordsworth
From, The River Duddon, A Series Of Sonnets, 1820. Numbered XVII 17

A dark plume fetch me from yon blasted yew,
Perched on whose top the Danish Raven croaks;
Aloft, the imperial Bird of Rome invokes
Departed ages, shedding where he flew
Loose fragments of wild wailing, that bestrew
The clouds and thrill the chambers of the rocks;
And into silence hush the timorous flocks,
That, calmly couching while the nightly dew
Moistened each fleece, beneath the twinkling stars
Slept amid that lone Camp on Hardknot’s height,
Whose Guardians bent the knee to Jove and Mars:
Or, near that mystic Round of Druid frame
Tardily sinking by its proper weight
Deep into patient Earth, from whose smooth breast it came!

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