The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-10
WAKEMAN'S TRAVELS.
A Visit to tho Tomb and Birthplace
OF Shakespeare.
SOME HISTORIC MEMORIES
Awakened by tho Trip to Strntford.
on-Avon..-rhc Quaint Old Town.
The Grave OF the Immortal Bard.
Interior OF the Churcli.-Somc lie.
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even where recognition seems most
complete; and ut waking, there is al.
ways tho saddDnlng longing to have
seen clearer, to have got closer, and to
have more firmly trod or claspcd the
outstrctched hand.
Something akin TO this tender feeling
OF unrest and vague consciousness Of
uniullllmont, possesses you in this
sweet old town OF Standardization.
From first to last the entire experience
is tinted with the nature and wrought
in tho very image OF dreams. 1t has
been your dream to sometime know
this greatest OF all literary shrincs.
Whi!S YOU arc within its strange inflr-
cnce, YOU wander and dream as in the
actual region OF dreams, among dream
born folk who arc dreaming within the
oica'i, A''er YOU ureal'.. AatfI YOU
call SOON: 10 hove Ind ;is orion in
some iar-off age OIL dreams.
II you come to this shrine by railway
and its interminable changes, giving
you glimpsos oil all sorts OF midland
towns, IRON ancient Warwick with lts
stately battlements at bennington with
It's modern glitter, you have reached Il
pleasing state OF confusion not remote
from the vNguries OF dreams. IL you
nave come to the place on a box OF one
OF those amous coaches which spin to
various points Of interest throughout
the shire, you VIII nave seen IN wow
hours q countless succession OF the
most beautiful and dreamtul country
side pictures in England. And II you
should come on loot lot the eleven
miles. as did, along the hard, white
highway from Warwick, underneath an
almost unbroken archway OF cling,
through the crisp yet drowsy atmos-
plierc OF an English midland autu1nnal
morning, there is still surrounding you
the gialhor OF beWltcliin% unfca!lty you
cannot and would not dispel.
HISTORIC MEMORIES.
Tro,,,ir, orar tb;s u.;tcbir, w,r
W!iat i loou Oh historic iich'o''es
sweeps in with the breath OF the rosy
morning: Here upon this noble c,nin-
cnce, With historic Clopton House to
the right and HAMPTON Lucy to the
Lett. beneath the archiny clmsis caught
the first glimpse OF the valley of the
Avon. An hundred lesser gentle yer.
dure.clal cminenccs rise and fall, rs ii
with the t~hrobbiny OF natures heart,
in It's lair, iar sweep. From away in the
northeast winds a thread OF silver. 1t
broadens as il disavuca1s and
in lis course toward tho severn and is
finally lost COMPLETELY. where, above A
mass of el,ns and lines anil rcl.tlled
roofs. rises a slender spirc. The sill
yorv thread is tha Avon, The mass Of
Gins and lines and rrd-tjlcl roofs is
StratforI. The slender SHIRE of lis
HOLY Trinity churcl, marks the tomb
and shrine of the worlds immortal
bard.
.Loiter!ns mere the ol9 days, places
w;,Io horir9n Vim M tLrna sn;rcs ~
ancient Coventry can a!mos. be seen,
not lar away to the north; Coventry
with lis legends OF pilgrima.cs and the
decd oil fair Godiva which b%roughtfrec-
dom from the oppression OF her fierce
grim lord to the people OF her we'll be-
loved town. The grand ruin OF Kcn;l-
worth, with its memories OF ~jousts, tour
namcnts and revelrics OF Elizabeth and
her iavoritics arc nearer still. Gray
old Warwick, with its. walls still Ms
mighty MS in the furious times OF the
third Henry, is Just behind you to the
north, Over TO the west Eveqham and
T%cwl;sbury recall 4 srcwfomc tale. Only
fifteen mi!cs,to the north, just at the
edge OF Oxiordahire, the first great bat
tie between the kings and parliament
tary forces was fought in the nth CEN
tury at Edge Hill. Not iur away, in
Northamptonshire, is Fotlicringay. no.
tably connected with the lives and iates