A Confession of St. AugustineHowells, William Dean
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A Confession of St. Augustine
Howells, William Dean
Saint Augustine (Fla.) -- Guidebooks
the city gates which remain another monument ol the Spanish will to be
fair as well as strong. Our great architect McKim could not find a
nobler suggestion for his Harvard gates than these gave, and one who
goes to Cambridge may imagine from them the chief ornament of St.
Augustine. They are indeed only the pillars of the gates, with a bit of
the ancient wall beside each, and how the fortification was continued
from them I never could quite realize, or whether in palmetto logs or
coquina walls. The old embankment which once stretched away on either
side was long ago leveled with the plain, but you can still imagine
anything you like of it. You cannot imagine too much of St. Augustine
anywhere within its vanished walls, or in the characteristic landscape,
where it lies a vision of unique appeal in our commonplace American
world.
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