The Washington times., 1918-11-17
IMMORTALSTHRONG.
|NGREENN|CH PARK

LONDON, Nov. 17.-Who does not
know Greenwich Park does not know
England, for IT is. in virtue of its
memories, the heart OF England; and,
In the greenness and gladness of its
little uplands and IowIaHdss in the
stateIiness of its leafy aisles il is
England at its prime Below 1t,
stately too, with her noble ships and
broWp-sailed barges drawing in and
out from the commerce OF the seas,
glides- the eVen-tempered Thomas
watched by Wren's Incompatible
masterpiece. the domed hospital which
commentaries the Battle Of the
Hogue and SO long sheltered the vet
Grams who created the naval suprem-
acy of Britain.
Not unhttingIy Wren's earlier work.
domed too. whence men record the
story of the stars, watches from the
park the little historic town which
has never resigned itself to be a
suburb and has never cleansed itself
of the dust OF the middle ages, the
naval schools, where still fingers a
fragment Of the Palace of Placentia5
the white and gray hospital. and the
gray and white cleaning river.
rswren BargaIned for Plot.
Wren bargained when he designed
the hospital that a little space should
ever be kept open on the north side
of the Thames whence could be seen
his work as a whole and his wish
has not been thrust aside. There in
pleasant gardens this August one can
stand beside the tapping tide and en-
JOY the spectacle of one OF the noblest
buildings in Europe framed against
the wooded heights of Greenwich
Park, 1t haunted .spotwhere ghosts
shaVe deigRed to linger and watch the
wGkfnB of the nation that they made.
IN The long sunny day the park
Schpes with human voices, and loiter-
inE children ceaselessiy ask, in this
tireleSs sI1rnk: keordfnE- place, inno-
cent strangers for the right time.
Blu even children grow tired and even
pe4ak keepers find that the long, long
daE Is reaching toward evensong.
- is then that a new company nils
thtrdarking avenues, Here the Bronze
A96 buried its dead around this an
cietn British grassy road bending
doFnWhrd TO the flowing river. From
thu point OF old, as now, the keen
eyS. could see the long marshlands
strstehing up to the ford at Westmin-
stef, today a wilderness OF houses.
gAESuCC luG kIcdk AdInl anu eIo-Ahb
lands of@the abbots of Bermondsey.
ne Ronans- ran thefr road up to
Westminster across these marshes,
ana hereSthey moved along it as it
ran through. the forested lands that
aras1oH the park Here was their
camp %, the higher lAnd.-and here on
this wonded kn0if-was q Roman tav-
ern- Here q legion that faced Boadicea
camped, n 1--WE may Judge by a coin
lying, IN. the. tavern ground, a denar-
tops ~, the XIV, legion. which march
ed to-2jondOu from Menaf IN 60 a. d.
Here, again comes Bishop Restitu-
tas out OF London on his way to Aries
1t is the year 313 A D.; .legionaries
watch him pass. He waters his mule
at this wayaide Inn. and here is the
great Alfred himself who owned those
lands, and here bound but triumph
ant, the noble Aelfege, whom the
Danes slew, since he would not tax
his people for ransom. the man of
whom Anselm said who dies for jus
tice dies for 1Chrtst-"+=
ImmortaIs Thr0nE.
Thicker grows the throng of the i'm
mortals. Elizabeth was born in the