. Monken Hadley . this or that epoch, will have suffered interruption over and overagain, whilst yet the memorials of successive owners will be discovered within thewalls of the church or on the page of its registers, either in storied urn oranimated bust or lustrous window set mong thousand heraldries,And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings; or, it may be, less noticeably, in the records of a birth and of a burial, whichtell all that remains to be told of the short and simple annals of the what we will, we in a manner identify the parish with the church, or, asperhaps it might be m
. Monken Hadley . this or that epoch, will have suffered interruption over and overagain, whilst yet the memorials of successive owners will be discovered within thewalls of the church or on the page of its registers, either in storied urn oranimated bust or lustrous window set mong thousand heraldries,And twilight saints, and dim emblazonings; or, it may be, less noticeably, in the records of a birth and of a burial, whichtell all that remains to be told of the short and simple annals of the what we will, we in a manner identify the parish with the church, or, asperhaps it might be more correct to say, rarely think of the parish apart from itsconnection with the church. Hither come instinctively our kindred from theother side of the Atlantic, descendants of the men, who, for conscience sake,regretfully turned their backs upon our shores in the seventeenth century, whosailed westwards in the Mayflower and in many another good ship, which bore Tennyson, Tithonus. •* Keats, Ere of St. INTERIOR OF 5 MARYS , MONKEN HADLEY, m MAY 1848 , LOOKING EASTWARDSfrom ctdrgLWing by W^ Frederic Ouvry . The Tarisli of Monhen Sadley. 117 aching hearts to an untried and unimagined destiny, Here, if any where, theyhope to discover the traces of their ancestry and unite the new home heyondthe seas with the birthplace of the stock from which they spring. Amongdecaying stones and inscriptions almost obliterated they may seek ia vain for thefamiliar letters that constitute their names, but, at all events, there remains anassurance that somewhere within the consecrated inclosure, somewhere beneaththose grass- grown hillocks, lie the remains of those from whom they are derived,because hither generation after generation of the past has been carried to its lastearthly resting place. As their own poet has beautifully written ;— Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them,Thousands of throbbing hearts, where theirs are at rest and for ever,Thousands of aching
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