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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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succeeded each other under the mostbrilliant effects of light and shade, until an ex-tensive prospect opened over the Avoodlands ofNottinghamshire. From a seat on one of thefinely groAvn stems, Avith AAhich the Avoodmansaxe had strcAvn the glade (trees which once musthave OA^ershadoAA-ed the young poet as he passed),we marked in the landscape such points as AAereconnected AAdth his brief residence among thesefair scenes. Looking OA^er a foreground of brakeand brier—rich in their early autumn tints, andglittering Avith rain-drops—beyond yelloAv hil-locks Avhere the rabbits burroAved, and, again,over green slopes, studded Avith tAvisted thornsand stag-headed oaks, the eye rested on darkmasses of elm, forming the middle distance ofthe picture. Embedded in that woody decliv-ity lay the Abbey of NcAvstead : perhaps a little low,Because the monks preferrd a hill behindTo shelter their devotion from the wind. From this point of view the building was ecu- THE HOME AND GRAVE OF BYRON. 607
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NEWSTEAD ABBEY. cealed, but the further end of the lake, frontingthe abbey, was visible—the brightest object inthe landscape. The hills of Annesley, bleakand barren, lay in dark blue tone beneath aheavy thunder-cloud, and the avenue of treeswas discernible, which leads through the domainof the Chaworths to the ancient hall, with allits sad associations and regrets. Sadder stillwere the thoughts with Avhich we turned to theextreme right of the landscape and discerned,through the gray mist of the falling rain, thevillage and tower of Hucknall, where lie themortal remains of the pilgrim poet, brought fromthe far distant marshes of Missolonghi, to restin the chancel of one of the least picturesque ofour country churches. As the storm was coming up quickly over thehills, we hastened across the park. At a suddenturning in the road, the abbey with its lake andoverhanging woods presented the view renderedso familiar in the illustrated editions of Byronsworks, or in the more faithful delinea

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