Family Secrets, Vol. 2: Or Hints to Those Who Would Make Home Happy (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Family Secrets, Vol. 2: Or Hints to Those Who Would Make Home Happy

How much the poetic character of all external objects depends upon the manner in which they are presented to our observation! A wandering artist, or even a poet in search of the picturesque, would probably have paused at the nearest stile, and fixed his enraptured gaze upon the village church of Heatherstone, as a subject scarcely to be rivalled for a sketch, of a poem. The old trees which skirted the churchyard, the high gray tower, and the gravestones, new and old, were real objects in the scene and his imagination could easily supply the ivy for the ancient porch, the white marble or the green turf for the venerated tombs, and the Silent mourner stealing from the public gaze to shed her tears unseen.

Far different were the associations of Owen Meredith, curate of Heatherstone, as he looked towards that dese crated scene. To him the gray walls of the old church were bleak and bare, and the unclothed porch the reverse of poetical; for there sat the beggars who were not in want.

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