...hyard would swing its orient flowers long after the two church spires had crumbled, although now, alas! the grove has long since disappeared, and the steeples remain. All this had been a part of Dr. Holmes 's boyhood, as of mine, and he like me had also tumbled about in a library, namely, his own father's, though fourteen years earlier. There was an inexhaustible set of volumes in it, placed near the...