<span style="color:grey">And als in t,

    <span style="color:grey">In times great periods surn to nought.

    <span style="color:grey">itoil of sprite w,

    <span style="color:grey">As idle sounds, of fe--

    <span style="color:grey">t ter than mere praise.

    tain urally steal a  urbed. In sucering about ters of estminster Abbey, enjoying t luxury of  o dignify ion, minster sc football, broke in upon tic stillness of ted passages and mouldering tombs ec. I sougo take refuge from trating still deeper into tudes of to one of to the library.

    ed me tal ricure of former ages, er-ed. Just . to t y, as if seldom used. e noaircase, and, passing tered the library.

    I found myself in a lofty antique ed by massive joists of old Englis ly opened upon ters. An ancient picture of some reverend dignitary of ted principally of old polemical ers, and re of tary table , an inkstand  ink, and a feed for quiet study and profound meditation. It  up from tumult of ts of tly sers, and tolling for prayers ecs of merriment greer and fainter, and at lengto   toll, and a profound silence reigned the dusky hall.

    I aken dotle to, curiously bound in parc, ed myself at table in a venerable elbo of to a train of musing. As I looked around upon tly never disturbed in t but consider terary catacomb,  to blacken and moulder in dusty oblivion.

    I,  aside  some acs! ude of cells and c