1874-1876HCNDiary_040a

we saw in Boston had that
Chapel for its subject, - and
I think I shall not soon
forget, now, it has this
double association. Speaking
of the way in which the Abbey
is made beautiful, he said,
"those architects made it, so
they say, perhaps the most
Splendid specimens in the
world of one of those stone
forests in which mwn of old
delighted to reproduce those
leafy minsters of God; where
they sent the columns aloft
like the broles of giant trees,
and wreathed, their capitals,
sometimes their very shafts,
with vines, and flowers, and
decked with fruits and
foliage the boises above and
the corbels below; and sent
up out of those corbels upright
shafts along the walls, in
likeness of the trees which
sprang out of the rocks above
their head; and raised those
walls in great cliffs; and
pierced those cliffs with the