Castles and abbeys of England in poetic and romantic lore (1915)
Schuch, Edw · Minneapolis, Minn., Press of Augsburg publishing house · leaf 252
the vespers ring. But lonely at the midnight hoursFlits by the bat on dusky wing. No more beneath the moonlight dim.No more beneath the planet ray. Those arches echo with the hymn That bears lifes meager cares away. No more within some cloistered cell, With windows of the sculptured stone, By sign… … FOUNTAINS ABBEY, 249 How many, too heartsick to roamStill linger oer the troubled wave, Would thankful turn to such a home,—A home already half a grave. —^Anonymous. A BOUT two miles from Ripon, in Yorkshire,^* stands the celebrated Fountains Abbey, in alovely vale, the very personification of…
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