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tempting the eye from loveliness within to the glorious pi-cspect 

 without ; stately trees that seem to guard like sr utinels the sacred 

 precincts of homo ; village churches, whose very spires and waJIa 

 speak of religion to the heart — these, with the designs uncom- 

 pleted at his death, which may yet cheer the desert that surrounds 

 our National Capitol, and all the unnumbered charms which his 

 inspired genius has scattered over our land, will long preserve th© 

 memory of Downing, fresh and fragrant as his own flowers, m 

 the hearts of thousands, whose taste has been gratified and culti- 

 vated by his instructions. 



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