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402 A VILLAGE SKETCH.
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speech century . , and It would to nave foe heard interesting them to respond have live to d the a year psalm in in each quainter of the is
last said t to went Ibe y possible centuries in , the and case to have of a certain had a animal nap in which the interim I decline , as to name . I should like to have shaken hands with Boadicea : there is
unhooded de _something ep slumbering falc electric on " p in And owers the gri I , should and p of causes a like heroine to the have , soul something seen to soar those * which aloft Druids awakens like how an
on earth they reared . those unseamed temples , and planted that , stone relations forest in Brittany when Boreas ; shoul ' forest d like harp to hav was e spent unbroken an evening when * wit the h my lightning Saxon
, had But if its I liberty were to and enumerate didn't have all the to things go errands which for I should the dressmaker like to have .
seen , tills paper would be rather inconveniently protracted : besides we came into this world as actors , and not as spectators merely . of the
The tower of Benniworth church arose in the early part thirte cent corners _villagers enth _were century new In , . and the Then looked mouth it thunder was of each that and was those threatening stuck horrid what visage seemed on the s at inno to the be
-. water a short with roll great of parc energy hment ; , but from somebod which y they or something must have has ejected ht long it worth rain since
while choked to every examine one of their them leaden , and throats nobody . seem If s ever to have they th insp oug ired terror , it is a thing of the past , for there the sparrow has found a house
and the swallow a nest for herself , even under their very jaws . A nestles mantle on of the ivy roof clings and loving the ai ly sles around and the the old venerable porch are structure hollowed and by ;
the tread of feet , long mouldered . How imposing the scene as now the and head again of the some white newl surplice ened floats grave over is announced that mortal the mound Hop , e an of d the at
Resurrection . There are y op few scenes which combine more affecting associations than the churchyard of one's native village . At that
font the minister took us in his arms for holy . baptism : there , along with a train of youthful companions in caps and tippets white as
snowwe knelt for confirmation : and then some of our companions drooped , , and we bore them in their white cofuns into the church and burden
once moreand as the villagers passed us our , they peered at what on stage , the the coffin flower plate had , and been their cut eyes down grew . Not iilm onl y y as does they memory noted
vibration photograp of h these the funeral early life bell -scenes which , but seems she as preserves if it coul the d scarcel tremulous toll y
for weeping . Too sacred for note in this connection are other , dearer ing memories But notice apart , nor I from know may these we that dwell , Benniworth the longer inhabitants on has mere , I are think personal very , some ignorant associations claim to peop pass le . - ,
. knowing little of aught else beside their duty towards God and
heavy their duty and uncouth towards , their that nei they ghbour take . large I know strides th and at the large men mouth are -
402 A Village Sketch.
402 A VILLAGE SKETCH .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 402, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/42/
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