New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-11
Where Druid Affairs Watch
New Wars Sacrifices
By P. w. WILSON
Author of THE CHRIST WE FORGET"

Ny cell was called "WirrallT-weary
All Hill-where they said ST. Joseph
planted MS staff and the thorn sprang
up which blossoms every Christmas.
A Puritan IN due course cut ie down,
cut of his own leg in doing so, but
stone marks the spot where IL grew.
and shoots were preserved which still
blossom tree-in Glastonbury ruins.
And the strange thing Is that this
tree is really and truly Of Palestine
species.
So 20 Tennyson and his Idyls. For
this Glastonbury is the very Isle OF
Avalon. Here lived Arthur and was
buried. with four stone lions to guard
him, the first British lions with twist
able tails. In the ruins ! found such
a lion, with its strong name nicely
combed by the centuries. IL was still
on duty. And there. too. under the
altar lies Guinevere repentant. For an
hour | reditated in Amesbury Church
before wheeling along the road, the
Vertical road. where she was borne 10
her grave with Lsncelot as chief
mourner.
Finds Angels In the House
And now recall the Saxon deluge.
All alone in a great hotel az Bradford
on-Avon, with mills roaring. | stayed
because what a strange story Il Is!
There was in that town n group OF
cottages with village school on the
first foor One day some plaster was
removed above a bedroom manteipieee
and two Saxon stone angels were re
yealed. The parson, hearing Of IL,
walked round those cottages several
times, then bought them, cleaned them
Up, and found a Saxon church dated
700 A. D., church over eleven hun
bred years old. The angels still hover
over the chancel arch. And 10 may be
that in these Angels in the House
there is a parable which would have
interested Coventry Patmors had he
lived 20 see them.
And, thought I, as trundled along
20 old Sarum, all this belongs 70 Amer
lea as much as 20 ourselves. Here in
Wiltshire the New World and the Old
World are one world. For look az this
old Sarum-the ground plan on a hill
top of a complete Norman city, church
es, fortresses, walls, gates-where men
lived and worshipped. had their heads
cut off "a one skeleton plainly showed)
and watched for enemies. Then. who
should come along but Edward III, and
he. recognizing that the valley Of Sails
bury was pleasanCer 20 dwell in than
the hilltop, gave his loyal subjects
leave 10 pull down old Sarum as com
pletely as Joshua pulled down Jericho
and build up Salisbury with the stones
thereof This TRANSPORTATION Of bricks
and mortar was so completely effected
that 20 this day on the walls OF the
cathedral close you may see bits Of
the old stone carving, gargoyles and
the like, from old Sarum, and the very
houses show oak beams with the orig
inal notches. | call that history.
Subllmating q TOothache
An! But the old English architect
urel None like i'll The deep, strong,
undercut moulding on the capitals
of the pillars and at Wells Cathe-
dral-the grotesque figures lurking
among the stiff leaves. "Toothache,"
that was their specially at Wells Hay-
4 ing a bishop whose bones still display
perfect teeth, they set up in the dentist
line and devoted the best part Of two
/ transepts 20 heads Of men and women,
bound up, bandaged, swollen, anguished,
not because OF. sins and negligence OF
the soul. but because of their aching
Jaws. Molar, not moral corruption, was
the trouble, and let US hope that the
shade Of the bishop relieved Il.
But | must get home-along the
Bath Road-past the Silbury Tumulus,
piled pyramid high over some oblivion
loaded savage chieftain, so through
Devices. where IS the Bear Inn. the
hostelry Of Lawrence, father Of the
artist, Sir Thomas, a place once hon
ored By Edward VII, thence 20 London.
And, bark. What sounds? Cheering
Your stern and silent soldiers march
over Westminster Bridge. And above
the Houses of Parliament wave the
Stars and Stripes fold BY fold with the
Union Jack. and it is clear my ride Il
over. but the five thousand years Of
history is only preface.