This accomplished, Crane's ugly buildings removed, and the three
western towers laid open to the court, the Horse-shoe Cloisters
consistently repaired, Windsor Castle would indeed be complete. And
fervently do we hope that this desirable event may be identified with
the reign of VICTORIA.
THUS ENDS THE THIRD BOOK OF THE CHRONICLE OF WINDSOR CASTLE
BOOK IV CARDINAL WOLSEY
I Of the Interview between Henry and Catherine of Arragon in the
Urswick Chapel--And how it was interrupted.
IT was now the joyous month of June; and where is June so joyous as
within the courts and halls of peerless Windsor? Where does the summer
sun shine so brightly as upon its stately gardens and broad terraces, its
matchless parks, its silver belting river and its circumference of proud and
regal towers? Nowhere in the world. At all seasons Windsor is magnificent:
whether, in winter, she looks upon her garnitures of woods stripped of
their foliage--her river covered with ice--or the wide expanse of country
around her sheeted with snow--or, in autumn, gazes on the same
scene--a world of golden-tinted leaves, brown meadows, or glowing
cornfields. But summer is her season of beauty--June is the month
when her woods are fullest and greenest; when her groves are
shadiest; her avenues most delicious; when her river sparkles like a
diamond zone; when town and village, mansion and cot, church and
tower, hill and vale, the distant capital itself--all within view--are seen to
the highest advantage.
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