Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . of the window was thrown down, some thirtyyears since, by an earthquake; and the gapingchinks of the dogs tomb, as well as several hor-izontal fissures in the abbey walls, were pro-duced by the effects of the same unusual phe-nomenon. The simple superstition of the neigh-borhood has peopled the groves with apparitions ;and certainly the trees are of the most grotesque. GOTHIC FOUNTAIN. THE HOME AND GRAVE OF BYRON. 609 growth, with their gnarled branches reflected inthe fountains, which they half filled with theirdecaying leaves. L
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . of the window was thrown down, some thirtyyears since, by an earthquake; and the gapingchinks of the dogs tomb, as well as several hor-izontal fissures in the abbey walls, were pro-duced by the effects of the same unusual phe-nomenon. The simple superstition of the neigh-borhood has peopled the groves with apparitions ;and certainly the trees are of the most grotesque. GOTHIC FOUNTAIN. THE HOME AND GRAVE OF BYRON. 609 growth, with their gnarled branches reflected inthe fountains, which they half filled with theirdecaying leaves. Let us pass to that noble ter-race, one of the longest in England. Beneathour footsteps break the twigs with which the re-cent storm has strewn it, and at the further ex-tremity a limb from the overhanging elms isthrown across its broad path. The broken holly-oaks which have laid their flowered sceptres onits gray balustrade, the ruined sun-dial, long sincefallen a victim to that insidious Time, againstwhich it had warned so many generations, theweather-stained vases, from which the wind hastorn the flowering creepers, the half-ruined steps,on which a peacock is trailing his bright plumagein the watery sunshine—these and many otherobjects enhance the melancholy beauty of thescene, and have a touching sympathy with thememory of him who will ever be sadly remem-bered there. From the terrace we descended to the old fish-pond,
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