"Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending."
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M. E. W. Sherwood, An Epistle to Posterity (1897), p. 137; see also "Voices of Westminster Abbey", Appleton's Journal (July–December 1878), p. 153
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