Stories of persons and places in Europe . James I. of Scotland was liberated and sent home withhis young wife, and here raged the destructive scenes of the Reformation, England. 121 and the Puritanical purging of Cromwells time when, all shrines and relicswere unmercifully de-stroyed. To this shrine cameprinces and people ofall ranks, eager to offerlands, money, jewelsand more relics whichin turn drew more visi-tors, and so the placegrewin riches andsplendor until a con-vent, a cathedral, anda city rose up aroundthe sacred shrine. Literary Shrines.—Veneration of relicsdied out in Englandafter
Stories of persons and places in Europe . James I. of Scotland was liberated and sent home withhis young wife, and here raged the destructive scenes of the Reformation, England. 121 and the Puritanical purging of Cromwells time when, all shrines and relicswere unmercifully de-stroyed. To this shrine cameprinces and people ofall ranks, eager to offerlands, money, jewelsand more relics whichin turn drew more visi-tors, and so the placegrewin riches andsplendor until a con-vent, a cathedral, anda city rose up aroundthe sacred shrine. Literary Shrines.—Veneration of relicsdied out in Englandafter the tomb of SaintCuthbert and all theother holy shrines weredeserted. Now theplaces most frequentedby visitors are thehomes or graves ofEnglands great states-men, scholars, writersand poets. At the headof the list stands thelittle house at Strat-ford-on-Avon, wherethe great Shakspearewas born and the tombwhich contains thethreatening verseabout moving hisbones. Near Bedford is another shrine where the author of the Pil-. shakspeares monument. 122 Persons and Places in Europe. grims Progress was born, and at Stoke Pogis, near Windsor Castle, isthe home of Gray, and the churchyard from which all the scenes of hisgreat elegy may be traced. There may still be seen the rugged elm,the yew-trees shade, the swelling mound where heaves the turf inmany a mouldering heap, and there too is the grave where the poet him-self is in his narrow cell forever laid. In the distance are the spires andtowers that crown the watery glade, and those fields where he sayshis careless childhood strayed. All the features of the landscape whichhe pictures, and nearly all the sounds of nature which he describes, mayhere be seen and heard,—the twittering swallow, the lowing herdand the drowsy tinkling of the sheep in the fold. No monument hasyet been raised over his tomb, but his poem is a monument that will neverallow his memory to fade as long as the English language is spoken. Hampton C
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