New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-28

shcloys acorn may that they too have found out
ere now that there ne ought TO be. The nation mas
as tho world not fun three hundred years
did his duty according his light, and died in doing H.
and his sad noble face looks down on EnSissmea a
they go oynot with reproach bns rather WIN cor and
peace with their fellow men. They are r,s Az
hass fallen r asleep IN peace The Called shout
der is freed from the collar at last Inc brave Old hoIs
no more mistakes now more sores; no moro falls
and whip thank Cod lana on 700 often When
was least needed most felt And there are no more
quarrels too. Old personal feuds. old pnrty bick-
eriUgs. old differences OF creed, and hatreds ~
mast in that world OF which the Abbey Is to
me symbol and afsacrament PIT and Fox, war
each other Abbey for they under,an each otne
elsewhere and the Romish Aboots p9nes 90 ny'
stir their grave beside the bones OF the fIotestn
divine whom he it may be. would have burned aiVe Oh
ELIZABETH AND MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
In the south aisle OF Henry the Seventies Chapel lies
In royal pop that exquisite parsonage who 50 long was
Britalns bane" the daughter Of debate, VINO discor"
still did sow"-poor Mary Queen Of Scots. But Enaish
and Scotch alike have forgotten the streams OF nooo
blood she cost their nations. aud look ia lily and PITY
lOgly upon her eiiigy. Why mott
=" Nothing is leh of her
Now. but pure womanly."
And in the corresponding aisle upon the north In IKE
tomb-wh the voice OF the English people demahde
from tho of Mary stuart-es even sadder ilEnre
days vanity OF Evaniiies-all vanity. Tyrone's re-
beilon killed her "ThIs fruit have OF all my aDqfS
which | have taken under the sun = ana Witl
whole Book Of Ecclesiastos written on no,
herself u 10 her lair refused food, aud dedand took
her place thenceforlh opposite TO h6r dear cousln
whom she really tried TO save from herself; VINO VINO
had at last, in obedience TO tho voice OF the
people OF England. to STAY against hsr W, i ths.
tomb the sacred symbol OF reconciliation even NOR
pathetic and more strange an, ya as her own SIS
ter. Mary Tudor" Bloody Mary now no more, James
placed at the head OF the monument two lines"
as has been well said. "full OF far deeper
them :, "Fcllows in the Kingdom and in the tom6,
here we sleep; Mary and E.z lbcth the sisters; III
these words or or that double scpuchor But did not
well. that the great ABBEY was p'o M of.n
a place TO remind hard-workcd, puroimd' auu oieon'
alas embttcred souls
Fo mother Bafth she g'ise es al
lnto her bosom. great al small
40 could look into her ZEE.
We should o shrink from l.r embrace
Yes All old Observation-Disclosures cleared up by now.
in that just world wherein all live TO God They I'VE 10
God: aud therefore the great Abbey Is 10 me a~i9i m
SYMBOL OF both worlJsthe and the unseen and of
the vaIls thiu CobSeb, yet opake as ught-|hieh
like tlat with which it grew-the life OF a great
naougrowing slowly to manhood, AS all great nations
through sin and he"ng onward devious track
through unknown wderuesses and struggling. victor,
Gus though with bleeding feet ath"art the tangled
woods and th0gLy brakes OF stern experience
ART OF TIE ABBEY BUILDERS.
Awful 1t s and should be- Aud therefore, at least do
regret that It's airy or outside should want thoS'
heaven pointing spires that delicate likeness that airy
ioyousness of many oreg noathedra-eyen of our own
salisbury and Itchfcd. You Will see in its outer shape
little, II any, of that type of architecture.
which was as I believe, copied from scenery
with which you. as Americans, must be even
moro familiar than the medieval architects who
travelled through the German forests and across the
Alps to Rome. True, we have our noDe' lghpiVcheu
snO
The mountain w EanEes JI9 had aeen t6ose snows
slip down in streets. rush down torrents from
the sun of the sileep slabs of rocks which
conied the bisde and he, like the rest, has copied IN
that roof for we'll as beauty, the monntaL-rocks
But he has nor, as many another medieval arch ne
has done decked his roofs nature has decked hers
with the spruce aud the tr-tree spires "hch chH 10
the hillside OF tue craS Ola ap'e n SoS With
them the sides aud summit OF the stone mountain whch
he had raised. TILL like group Of mrs upon an lsoAteh
rock. every part OF the building sno,u seem ~ ,t 70
grow toward heaven aud the leads OF the Minister rO0
carven foliage. as tho gray rocks stand ont OF
the prmeyal woods Thdt part OF the medieval
hardly attempted by our Westminster architects either
under Henry Ill. Edward l., OF Henry V. Their Min
portion am tmn portb door bnneaIh the battinC
crag weatherworn and crumbing stone. may tecl
like VINO. in Old Northern fairy tale enters
cave in low mountain SIDE where tolIS
and dragons guard the boards Of buried kings And
awful 1t u.s. and should DC stlll liside under daa'
and more huge and yet more SOFT behind the murky
Bat sad cannot call It. Nor. think. would you feel
n said when you perceive how richly successive arcn
tects have squandered on the treasures OF their fancy
and made it, - to say, perhaps the most splendid sp,c
men In world OF OF those stone forests IN which
the men OF old Delighted to reproduce those
built when they sent the columns 0lpft lk" the
boles giant trees aud wreathed tner capitals, some
times their very shafts. with vines and Hover. ana
decked with foliage and with fruit tho bosses aD0ye ana
the bsow and sent up out OF those corbes up
light shafts along the walls, in likeness OF the trees
which sprang out OF the rocks above their
head and raised those walls INTO great GINS
and pierced those cliffs with the arches or the
tr-forium as with Wild creatures caves or hermts'
cells and represented in the horizontal strngcourses
the windows into wide and lofty gades, broken In
the forest by the racery of stems and bough through
which seen not only inc outer, out
The upper world. For they crIved-ls
all true artists crave-for light and color
and had the sky above been one perpetual blue they
might have been with IL ana LETT their glass
transparent. But in our dark. dank Northern cline,
rain aud snow-storm black cloud, gray mist were All
that they were like to see for six months In
the year. they took sucn light ana color as nature
gave her few gayer moods, and SCI alOlt III tnelr
stained glass windows the lines OF MONDAY aud sunset,
and purple OF the heather ana the Sod OF the gorse
and the azure OF the bugOss and the crimson OF the
poppy, and among thom IN gorgeous robes the angels
and the saints OF Heaven and the memories OF heroic
and heroic suferings that they might It up Tue
eyes and hearts OF men forever out OF the dark sad
| world of the cold north. with all ITS coarse,
ness and its crimes, toward the realm OF
perpetual holiness and perpetual summer ana beauty
and love, one who from between tne black Jaws OF
| narrow glen, and from beneath the D!ack shade OF
gigantic trees, catches glimpse OF Tar lands gay WITH
gardens and cottages purple mountain ranges 5 am niue Tue
sky aud finds himself led forth into the inhnity and
freedom OF repOSe.
THE GOOD COMPANY IN THE ABBEY
Awful aud yet not sad, at least TO one who Is re-
minded by it, even in its darkest Winters gloom, OF the
pr,meya tropic forest in its two most exquisite
ments Its too brief twilight. aud its stoo brief dawn
awful, and yet not sad, at least to an English
man, while right and left are ranged , the
Of men who have we'd. each an hts place. 10 make