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OUR "SWEET WILLIAM: 



and it may be found, unless swept away by barbarous " im- 

 provements," adorning the gray old masonry of Sandown 

 Castle, and on ruins in the neighbourhood of Norwich. On 





FIG. 80. " On the time-worn ruins of an ancient minster." 



the walls of Rochester's stately keep it grows at a height 

 which defies the spoiler's hand; and on the time-worn ruins of 

 an ancient minster, it shines, in the summer-noon, " with a 



