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The Wayside jShrine. 



scribe a semicircle above its stem. Inside the shrine 

 is the sorrowful mother, carved of wood, and having 

 her heart, pierced with arrows, on the outside of her 

 robe, showing that sculptors, like poets, have a license 

 to do not as other mortals. w Mater Dolorosa, 

 Ora pro Nobis." Good Catholics are they who pass 

 this shrine, for, one and all, they cross themselves 

 devoutly. 



At the entrance to the garden is a keeper's lodge, 

 of stone. A foaming stream rushes under a wooden 

 bridge, across which is a smaller garden, in which 



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