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and miglit from its appearance have formed tlie text 

 of Gray's ivy-mantled tower, where 



" The moping owl does to the moon complain ; " 



being covered with a luxuriant growth of this cling- 

 ing evergreen to the very top. Standing beneath, 

 and peering through the Norman-looking windows, 

 which admit but a sober light, glimpses are obtained 

 of costly monuments with the names and titles of 

 patrons whose escutcheons are visible against the 

 wall. The Squire's tomb remains uninscribed ; but 

 in 1821 Cecil Weld, the first Lord Forester, erected 

 a marble tablet near, with the simple record — '' To 

 the memory of my late cousin and benefactor, George 

 Forester, Esq., WiUey Park, May 10, 1821.'' 



