Excerpt from The Grey Friar, and the Black Spirit of the Wye, Vol. 2 of 2: A Romance
The hermitage in which Merlin had fixed his solitary abode was about two miles distant from the banks of the Wye. Rosemont ruins were part of an antient castle, once inhabited by the Mortimers, who had long abandoned the dilapidated edifice, for their more magnificent residence at Wigmore. The buildings thus neglected, had fallen into complete decay, and was every where overgrown with brambles, or hidden among the ivy. It had been, time immemorial, the haunt of wolves and foxes; the portentous croaking of the raven resounded from the tottering battlements; and the melancholy note of the solitary bird of night, was echoed by the broken arches. It was so melancholy and so dismal in its appearance, that without much violence of metaphor, it might have been described as the "habitation of dragons," and "the place where satyrs dwell."
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