![[Picture: A Reminiscence]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArtJournal-XII-1850/pages/011-reminiscence/011-reminiscence-q75-152x200.jpg "[Picture: A Reminiscence]")
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mansions, stately homes, ruin, nostalgia, trees, paths, poetry, poems
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A path through the trees, strewn with the fallen masonry of gateposts with their terracotta balls; mature trees on either side. In the backgrouns a person wearing a ha and using a cane (or umbrella) walks towards a crumbling and ancient mansion.
The picture is headed Passages from the Poets, and beneath it the following single verse is printed, an extract from a much longer poem:
“Mark yon old mansion frowning through the trees,
Whose hollow turret wooes the whistling breeze.
That casement, arch’d with ivy’s brownest shade,
First to these eyes the light of heaven convey’d.
The mouldering gateway strews the grass-grown court,
Once the calm scene of many a simple sport;
When nature pleas’d, for life itself was new,
And the heart promis’d what the fancy drew.
Rogers. Pleasures of Memory.
