THE ELM. 65 



" Our fathers knew the value of a screen 

 From sultry suns, and in their shaded walks 

 And long protracted bowers enjoyed, at noon, 

 The gloom and coolness of declining day." 



The principal tree among them is seventy-nine 

 feet in height, fourteen in circumference, at three 

 feet from the ground, sixty- five in extent of boughs, 

 and contains two hundred and fifty-six feet of solid 

 timber. About the centre of the group stands an 

 urn with the following inscription : 



To the Memory 



Of my 



Two Highly Valued Friends, 

 Thomas Tyrwhitt, Esq. 



And 

 The Rev. C. M. Cracherode, M.A. 



In this once favour'd walk, beneath these Elms, 



Whose thicken'd foliage, to the solar ray 



Impervious, sheds a venerable gloom, 



Oft in instructive converse we beguiled 



The fervid time which each returning year 



To friendship's call devoted. Such things were ; 



But arc, alas ! no more. 



S. DUNELM. 



Pleasing as it always is to see worth and genius 

 paying tribute to kindred associations, it is particu- 

 larly so in the present instance, from the illustrious 

 Prelate who, in these lines, hands down the names 

 of his friends to posterity, and whom it was de- 

 lightful to contemplate wandering, in his ninetieth 



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