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contemplation of such objects conveys to the 

 heart which thrills, like a minstrel's harp, 

 to the touch of nature, but because such 

 places are talked about; and they would 

 pass the most lovely spot in the island, 

 without the least sensation of pleasure and 

 without a remark, were it not for a sort of 

 guide-post notice in the book which they 

 frame their route by, which seems to say 

 " 8^" Admire here." In the church, the 

 cloisters, or the chapter-house, the broad 

 hard stone, sculptured with a simple cross, 

 marks the final resting-place of the monk, 

 whose name the worn-out letters, unfaithful 

 to their charge, no longer reveal to the 

 stranger who stands upon his grave. The 

 sparrow builds in the corbels of the arch 

 which rose above the high altar; the ivy 

 crawls where the crucifix stood; and the 

 once well-trodden floor of the buttery-hatch, 

 where the poor and the pilgrim received 

 their accustomed dole, is now covered with 

 grass. The form and structure of society 



