Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-02

Clarke--fOr no other reason than that
he fixed pipes and sodered up leaks
for Westminster School, an appendage
OF the abbey. But no memorial VIII be
found In the abbey Of that soldier arti-
fcer whom the world can never forget
the immortal tinker, John Bunyan,
OBSCURE FOLK MGNGLE WITH
THE GREAT
Because he CHANGED to be employed
as butler In Westminster School
Thomas Warren was Inferred I'm one Of
the cloisters In 1889 by marrying "a
Page Of the Back stairs and as
Mistress Starchor' experimenting
queen Anne's washing, Elizabeth Abra-
hal gained similar posthumous honor
For looking after queen Annc's hens
and chickens David Davis, First Groom
OF Her Majestys Poultry Ohice' was
buried I'm this ground conscctated 10
the great with several members OF his
family. including sixyear-old son.
Nor did the little fellow lack company
there. Many children are buried In the
abbey and none Of them was a prodigy
The first child to be buried there, the
fve-y ear.old daughter Of Henry III was
dumb, but being the child Of a king
and a great king, as things were looked
nj In those old days no exception could
be taken TO her intcrment there Win
her ancestors. The same heredity claim
may be held 10 Justify the bhrial.in the
abbey of the little son OF Henrietta
Maria, the eXiled queer OF Charles |,
although the infant did nothing more
extraordinary than make hasty exit
from this troubled world on the same
day that he entered Il, tarrylng Just
long enough to get christened. But OF
most of tho abbey children II may be
said that no man knows why they
should have been buried there, That
little Nicholas Bagenall, for instance,
was "by hys nyrs unfortunately over
layd," when only two months old, was
doubtless n source Of sore grief To his
parents something more than 800 years
ago, but there Is no reason why the
chlld's deplorabe fate should continue
TO be commemorated by an ungainly
black pyramid and urn when space is
needed 10 make room for those who
have done noble work for England
The Smith family Is the most NUM-
erous In the country, but if merit were
20 determine who among them Is most
worthy OF burial In the abbey the choice
would certainly not fail ON one Thomas
Smith, OF whom nothing Is known save
the inscription on his tablet that
through the spotted veil Of the small
pox he rendered a pure and unspotted
soul TO God" In the south aisle OF the
great nave Is monument to another
smlth--John Smlth--'who died In Ills.
He may have been n very worthy man
nobody knows--but " his family had
not some pull with the dean he never
would have been thus rescued from
oblivion. II would seem as though in
those good old days influence could get
almost anybody buried I'm the abbey.
The Duke OF Buckingham had Scotch
man buried there for no other reason
than that he was a friend On the same
day a lot of people got together and
buried dog In Tothll Fields as pro-
test against the abbey funeral But
the dukes friend still retains his six
feet Of ground there.
1t Is the Poets Corner" that visitors,
and especially American visitors, APP
proach with the greatest reverence and
there they llnger longest. But no other
part OF the abbey affords a more atrlk-
Ing Illustration OF its incongruitles--of
the lack of any principle OF selection by
which the most deserving OF remem
brance, We're admitted aud those who
had no claim TO enduring fame were
kept out, Addison long ago complained
that there were poets who had no
monuments and monuments which had
no poets" 1nose whose works are gen
orally forgotten are better represented
IN the Poets CorneT than those whose
writings are still cherished. No mem-
orals exist there Of Byron, Keats Shell
ley, Moore. Walter Savage Landor Sir
Philip Sidney, Marlowe. LoVelace, Her
rick, Allan Ramsey, Chatterton, Mas
singer and several others deseryedly
far better known than many Of those
on whom monuments and fulsome cpl
taphs have been bestowed.
Although Thomas Snadwell, poet
laureate I'm the reign Of William Ill ac-
Cordlng To- Hallam, "endeavored to make
the stage as grossly immoral as his
talents admitted" he has a monument
in this hallowed shrine Of the muses.,
A student might pass Il pretty suit ex-
animation in English literature and yet
have read nothing written by Nicholas
Rowe the poet laureate of George l.
and, according to his epltaph, composed
by Pope, next 10 Shakespeare skilled
TO draw the tender tear ON his monu'
ment In the Poets Corner his widow
IL depicted wiplng the tender tear
from one eye and gazing at his bust oui
of the other For all that, she married
again soon after he was buried. Mlchae
Drayton, whose bust occupies niche
IN this sacred spot, is now numbered
among the forgotten poets, despite tn
prediction made In his epitaph that "hl'
name that cannot fade shall De an ever
lasting monument
Under the medallion OF John Gay
who has long faded from remembrance
appear his own cynical lines;
Life IL lest, and all things show It
/ thought 80 once, and now | know H.
And they seem not altogether map
propriate I'm view OF HIS own presence
In such place and the strangely mlXeC
company gathered about him AS fittlnl
representatives Of England's greatness
Among other tenants of the Poet
Corner who have shared oblivion viii
him may be mentioned John Phillips
Abraham Cuwley, william Mason, Mat
thew Prior. Christopher Anstey and 81
william Davenant despite his plagiar
ICED epitaph 80 rare Sir William Dave
nant" II IL a strange assemblage q
thu dead that minglcs In this part Of Ia
abbey. In IL are found diVmes philos
ophers, essayists. dramausts, actors
antiquarlans, critics, architects, philan
thropists, etc, most Of them long for
gotten And among those who have lei
an enduring mark on English literatut
incongrulty still charactorlzes the
commemoration. ThackeraS who wa
buried az Kensal Green, has bust herr
while his geat rival Dickens Is burio
close By with no monument save h
graVestone. Samuel Johnson vs. hurlc
Lere. but his monument IL In 81, Paul
Vathedral. Others occupy conspicuol
places who have no earthly claim
them. what, Tor instance, could
more inappropriate than a tablet aboN
Chaucers tomb, to John Roberts IN
very faithful secretary Of the Homo
able William Pelham n minister WI
held office under George II And whc
such men as Byron. Keats and Shelt
still remain unrocogni2ed I'm the abbe
why should room any longer be give
80 Thomas Chailnch and John Osbald
ston pages OF the bedchamber'
Charles IL?
MONUMENTS TO THE 1NFAMOU