Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions . ostrate fragments mouldering—fresh like lifeAnd as thy footsteps thread the arch-ways broad,Darkened by self-sown foliage, clustering downIn wild profusion, let thy fancy paintTheir deep unutterable tale of Ruin mocks Ambition ; here she standsTo show that all is vanity! Stay then,And \-iew thine own ine^•itable fate ;Though, stranger, still thy wayward heart contemnPlain competence and peace, secured state.* OkEHAMPTON CARCE any branch of antiquarian research hasattracted so little attent
Some account of the barony and town of Okehampton: its antiquities and institutions . ostrate fragments mouldering—fresh like lifeAnd as thy footsteps thread the arch-ways broad,Darkened by self-sown foliage, clustering downIn wild profusion, let thy fancy paintTheir deep unutterable tale of Ruin mocks Ambition ; here she standsTo show that all is vanity! Stay then,And \-iew thine own ine^•itable fate ;Though, stranger, still thy wayward heart contemnPlain competence and peace, secured state.* OkEHAMPTON CARCE any branch of antiquarian research hasattracted so little attention as that which re-lates to military architecture: such specimensas now remain are nearly all of late introduc-tion ; but whether we may rank them with theimprovements introduced into the west bythe crusaders is doubtful. Alfred, however,seems to have been the first of our princes with whom the *The effusion of the local muse here quoted was contributed to tlienative antiquarian, by the waiters wdow, Mrs. Howard, of Castle, built 1058.—Salmons
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