Shakespeare's England . e§ in 104. WestminsUr Abbey^ from the Triforium. 106 SHAKESPEARES ENGLAND chap, xi darkness. This may suggest the reason that relics ofbygone years so sadly please and strangely awe us, inthe passing moment; or it may be that we involuntarilycontrast their apparent permanence with our own eva-nescent mortality, and so are dejected with a sentimentof dazed helplessness and solemn grief. This sentimentit is — allied to bereaved love and a natural wish forremembrance after death — that has filled WestminsterAbbey, and many another holy mausoleum, with sculp-tured memorials
Shakespeare's England . e§ in 104. WestminsUr Abbey^ from the Triforium. 106 SHAKESPEARES ENGLAND chap, xi darkness. This may suggest the reason that relics ofbygone years so sadly please and strangely awe us, inthe passing moment; or it may be that we involuntarilycontrast their apparent permanence with our own eva-nescent mortality, and so are dejected with a sentimentof dazed helplessness and solemn grief. This sentimentit is — allied to bereaved love and a natural wish forremembrance after death — that has filled WestminsterAbbey, and many another holy mausoleum, with sculp-tured memorials of the departed; and this, perhaps, isthe subtle power that makes us linger beside them,with thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls. When the gentle angler Izaak Walton went intoWestminster Abbey to visit the grave of Casaubon, hescratched his initials on the scholars monument, wherethe record, I. W., 1658, may still be read by thestroller in Poets Corner. One might well wish to followthat example, and even thus to associat
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