LETTER II.

_THE CHURCH._

... Festinat enim decurrere velox Flosculus angustæ miseræque brevissima vitæ Portio! dum bibimus, dum serta, unguenta, puellas Poscimus, obrepit non intellecta senectus.

_Juvenal._ Satir. ix. lin. 126.

And when at last thy love shall die, Wilt thou receive his parting breath? Wilt thou repress each struggling sigh, And cheer with smiles the bed of death?

_Percy_ [?].

Several Meanings of the word _Church_--The Building so called, here intended--Its Antiquity and Grandeur--Columns and Ailes--The Tower: the Stains made by Time compared with the mock Antiquity of the Artist--Progress of Vegetation on such Buildings--Bells--Tombs: one in decay--Mural Monuments, and the Nature of their Inscriptions--An Instance in a departed Burgess--- Churchyard Graves--Mourners for the Dead--A Story of a betrothed Pair in humble Life, and Effects of Grief in the Survivor.