Sentence:  As John T. Westbrook says in his article , `` Twilight of Southern Regionalism '' ( Southwest Review , Winter 1957 ) : `` The miasmal mausoleum where an Old South , already too minutely autopsied in prose and poetry , should be left to <WSD>rest</WSD> in peace , forever dead and ( let us fervently hope ) forever done with '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  stay the same; remain in a certain state