Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-22
VtNDERINGS
-.r SHRINE AND HAuH1s OF
At rHs POET eHAY-l''

..,,r Among the Familiar
~ o,,se .Eicsy"--siolse Manor TIE
s',, ,lopum,n' md the Anoi'", stoke ..
s church aud ch"reh'"rd WIN.
:, pictured by n Loving and
fs.,ie PEN
..,,,sh,, isae, by Edgar l.. Wakeinan'l
F'p' posrs England. oct. Elf tho
sIoSass 'cenlc and historic environment
r.nur. pages. the old home and chiel
Gss ,he poet Gray, l. fine and stirring,
paasV ii,seif Is one likely to awaken the
teP a.,o,lons OF contemplation and de
iar' , rserc are no more beautiful park
" ann landscapes to he found IN Eng
il =, In Hucl,ingbninshire, which IN.
M yelyety reaches and splendid
t.,' and prlmeyal forests roundabon
hns ,''.r ouly fancy IL. but It seems that
w. catts upon the highways are mOrv
CO., h,rc.~C otter and plowboy, farmer
lo'r, poftrr from tue near kilns. cOun.
utna,b or lassie with rosy checks. APP
W MOVE from house to house or Held
l.'n s.if IN pleasant mous,. Kline IN
~. al lOOrways. sheep Ia meadOws.
r,,,,,,,,, or nod ~ In sleepy solstice time.
a,5,tbe birds, though no less mclodiOus
sh ,gas their lays as II hesiiant OF
s'tlns even with JOY. tho sweet and
w. ,nsll. All this, TOO, Is intensified
49, becnliar retirement OF the central
~, Of the "Elcgy the stoke Poges
Zach and churlyari. Ncitherisat the
ss,.ide. a. l. usual with English country
-s,orlal churches. Unless iirst rightly
I.serl YOU would pass them many times
- H. old north and south highway
~ slough. They lie 20 the west Of the
- hidden hy dense masses OF trees.
n,s1.I,e arc pleasant fields, with here and
~ willow boricfcd runlots Of whipping
,,,er or shndowy pools. where In summer
kre-
ELsn the flushed siu waits Ia saftrony skies,
y,.,dlng- Of lanes and highways, with
s,lpty yistas stretching TO the horizon be-
,y,en. ard, " the trees are wind whipped
,ronuh In autumn time. gllmpscs Of tho
,,,nbsr brown of EtOn's cmbuttled walls,
With the great Round Tower of Windsor -
cray silhouette beyond.
Oyerarrhlng trees aud luxurious creep.
ar. shut out the Stoke Park road to church
,yl manor house completely. l.eav.
he this you enter a path leading over .
ittle hllloo, through % tangled maze Of
,,pplre, and comu ut the end u perhaps a
lnndrrd yards 10 the huge monument
erected 10 tire memory Of Gray, In 1872. by
J.Lu Penn, grandson NJ William Penn, tho
,Len lorl Of stoke Manor. THE design was
BIZ the noted James wyatt. H. consists "
a,arrophngus OF heroic Size supported on
Alofty SQUARE frcestono pedestal the whole
,srhaps forty or iif,y feet above tho sward,
which &. beautifully interpreted with
flowers and protected by a surrounding
iunken fence.
It Is really the only important monu.
nent TO Gray In existence. \ vast sum
WAS once collected under prctense OF u
building find In memory VI Gray. az Penn
broke Hall ~ Cambridge, where lie was
for years one VI the most illnstrious ornn-
neuts u the classic town. Indeed" says
10 excellent an authority ~ GoS.c, ~
strangers did not periodically Inquire lat
Cambridge for his room, IL is probable
that the name of Gray would be as com.
pletely forgotten nj Pembroke ~ mt Peter
iouse (from which his cold bath ut tho
hands Of rolsiering fellow conmoncrs ono
January night In 1863 had driven hlm),
where also no monument u any kind pre-.
,srs. the record Of his presence"
The inscriptions on the four sides ARE In
keeping with the spirit of the spot nnd Mt
onos emphasize In the visitors mind tho
close and loving association of poet. poetry
and place. On the side facing the south
approach is the following;
.''',''''''s'''''''''''''s' '''''ss's'..'.,,...'.
This Monument, In homer %
THOMAS GRAY,
Was Erected \. u. lspQ
/. Among the fcensry
federated by that great Lyric and Elcginc.
Poet.
lie died Ia i5sl,
. And lies unuotch In tho adjoining
{. NhufchyAftl,
.rndsr tie Tombstone on which hc plously:
/: And pathcilcglly recorded the intcrmcut
! OF bis Aunt and lumen,ed Mother.