Excerpt from Sibyl Spencer
"But most the ancients should engage
And fire my heart with classic rage,
Models of style, to nature true
With boldest art her form they drew."
Anonymous.
The pious bounty of the founders of the congregational church at D - had endowed it with some fifty acres of rich meadow land, and had built for their pastor a large square house. This house stood directly on the principal street, and was separated from the church by the graveyard. Neither of the two buildings was painted, and the cypress shingles with which their sides were covered, had grown gray with age.
The mossy head-stones in the churchyard, and the gigantic elms which overshadowed them, gave an air of antiquity uncommon in America. The ground at the rear of the parsonage sloped gradually towards a little brook. Groups of trees had been allowed to remain, permitting vistas of the distant hills, and throwing long shadows, pleasant to the eye, on this hot, sultry June morning.
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