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ON one of tter part of autumn oget estminster Abbey. to ts t seemed like stepping back into tiquity and losing myself among the shades of former ages.
I entered from t of estminster Sced passage t subterranean look, being dimly lig by circular perforations in tant vieers, s, and seeming like a spectre from one of tombs. to tic remains prepares ts solemn contemplation. ters still retain somet and seclusion of former days. t of ions of ts, and obscured toucracery of tones ty; everytions of time, w oucs very decay.
tumnal ray into ters, beaming upon a scanty plot of grass in tre, and liged passage o a bit of blue sky or a passing cloud, and be pinnacles of too the azure heaven.
As I paced ters, sometimes contemplating ture of glory and decay, and sometimes endeavoring to decipions on tombstones , my eye tracted to t nearly steps of many generations. ts; tapirely effaced; t been reneer times (Vitalis. Abbas.
1082, and Gislebertus Crispinus. Abbas. 1114, and Laurentius.
Abbas. 1176). I remained some littl