Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-05-27
Westminster Abbey.
A GII,usr AT FAMOUS CATIIEDRAL-"A
CHURCH WHERE THE LIVING ARE LITTLE,
DI-r GREAT ARE TIE NOBLE COMPANY OF
THE DEAD DO HERE INHABIr.


CLINT Sc At FAMOUS cNTuEDRAL-A
CHURCH WHERE THE LIVING ARE LITTLE,
But GREAT ARE TIE NOBLE COMPANY OF
THE DEAD DO HERE tNHABlr.
[..warrcnt"n IN the Eoston Couri'ri
Noble in architecture, rich in old asso-
clations. black with age and the smoke OF
centuries. Westminster abbey stands like
some old monitor of bySonc days station
ed here to watch the progress of the busy
world
What if | hal known it since began
TO toddle what If had lived long under
the very shadows OF its towers what If
had looked upon it and i'll it for many II
lay: what ii | had rambled about its
nooks and quiet places time out of mind,
until knew hy heart every grave IN 1t
and every tomb from that of old King
Sebert TO Rowland Hill, may | not tins
bright spring afternoon saunter once more
in the old haunts. through rows of war
riors and through walks of kings?'
Through an ugly black door stuck
:.skancc in the beautiful entrance under
Solomon's porch, ms though it had wan
dered there by mistake long ago, and
Lever been able TO find its way out again
had grown old and wrinkled and insight
Is. In ut this miserable little approach,
where strike my hat against the frame
work. and catch pocket in doorknob,
and stand gazing through pnrple-bluc
mist at what might be Il great wheel hung
high in the hcavons-this is the rose Win
dow. | stand impressed with the beau
ties of the gothic architecture, mt the
tiers of graceful arches rising one abo, =
another, at the rows of columns and ''the
long drawn aisles.,;' | see once moro the
countless works of art. grave memorials
of the noble dead, the relies of former
greatness, the remnants of departed
glory, and feel that above all and around
all calm and peaceful air rs Of sanctity
pervades the place, and | think OF the
long lines of noble ancestry, the families
of royalty, the many men of genius, aye
even Of the old ahbots, the bishops, the
monks. who have risen and fallen on the
tide of time, and now within those sacred
walls lie buried For this grand old pile
Is tho treaSurc-house of Il nation genius,
the stronghold of Il nations glory; there
is not n nook i'll it that is not lmllowed by
history. The cloisters bring back re-
collections of the COW led monks, and one
can almost fancy that within the dark
passages their hooded forms are moving
silently about he might also expect to
stumble upon Il reverend father enjoying
siestn i'll the neonday sunlight, or note a
LII. fr;o, taI,,nc L,s La,Is Hnt nn near
er to this does he come than To meet II
surpliced curair, or Iniet looking indi-
yi,lual who might he a minor canon, or IL
choir bnv with n I,rn. whit, collar auI n
mori,r h,,rJ can
Turn Won in here at the chaptcr house.
where tl,e ,hhot anil his monks met for
discussion ow,v lack in tho twelve thir
tsen fourtcen and fifteen hundreds .
where also they sat in Indictment nm tba
Stone SCENTS ,ircliur round wher, they
scourreI their cuIprits at the central pii
lar wiensoev,r tbrr, were any culprits
to scourre her, in the .incomparuble
cbontcr Inu.e vbrra for tl,rec centuries
the English commons debated enacted
anil eSponnJ,J. where ais, ,l,vn f.,
modern times WAS Stored an incomporobl.
amount of public records where row in
these I,oencrot, ,lovs isnntLinc -notbino
beside what has been There and should lie
there now were if mot for inrooJs Of
church desruiIinr Goth and Vandol-
nothing then but the Stone seats the GEN.
trail pillar. nothing Int ilc building itself
bare of its own time ornaments save the
remnant If a pavement cIriously inlaid.
saving bis of H. century Paintings on the
walls. save II few rl,ss eases filled with
rusty relics Juo mn from fine to time
about the place: save ancient Roman cof-
fins of stone save also a rrim and helmet
cd policeman half doing irreyercntly in n
stiff. backed chair and thr rays of the
sprinp sunshine
Then too in fin, cathedral nf 81 Peter
are there not "reminiscences of America >
Are there not marbles +, commemorate
the times when the rn"lisl ,nl the
French fnnabt f,r fine ,n.,sterv IN the
western worI19 Is tL,r, moi ., monu-
meut erected by thc ,,r,vi.r, NJ N,ss,-
chusct.s Inv to tLr memory Of Lord
Howe? One to Col. T,unshcnJ who fell
at Ticender,ro and marc than NIL one to
the Gallant Wolfe. G,uro. p,abn,ly has
b.rr a memoriL anil I,' ono tn N,i
| Andr, The G,th ANIL N,u,l.l has h,cn
at work unon thc Later tIn,e times has
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