Shakespeare's England . XX A GLIMPSE OF CANTERBURY 229 his monument. There it stands, with its grand columnsand glorious arches, its towers of enormous size andits long vistas of distance, so mysterious and awful, itsgloomy crypt where once the silver lamps sparkled andthe smoking censers were swung, its tombs of mightywarriors and statesmen, its frayed and crumbling ban-ners, and the eternal, majestic silence with which itbroods over the love, ambition, glory, defeat, and an-guish of a thousand years, dissolved now and ended ina little dust! As the organ music died away I lookedupward and saw
Shakespeare's England . XX A GLIMPSE OF CANTERBURY 229 his monument. There it stands, with its grand columnsand glorious arches, its towers of enormous size andits long vistas of distance, so mysterious and awful, itsgloomy crypt where once the silver lamps sparkled andthe smoking censers were swung, its tombs of mightywarriors and statesmen, its frayed and crumbling ban-ners, and the eternal, majestic silence with which itbroods over the love, ambition, glory, defeat, and an-guish of a thousand years, dissolved now and ended ina little dust! As the organ music died away I lookedupward and saw where a bird was wildly flying to andfro, through the vast spaces beneath its lofty roof, inthe vain effort to find some outlet of escape. Fit em-blem, truly, of the human mind which strives to com-prehend and to utter the meaning of this marvellousfabric !. CHAPTER XXI
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