Our  own  war  with  England  is  brought  to  mind  by
the  sight  of  the  monument  to  Major  Andre.  You  re-
member, do  you  not,  that  he  was  hung  as  a  spy  in
America?  But  he  was  a  brave  soldier  and  after  the
Revolution  his  body  was  sent  back  to  England  with
every  mark  of  respect  and  consideration.  It  was  laid
here  in  the  Abbey  and  this  fine  monument  erected  to
mark  the  spot.
Britannia  is  represented  as  mourning  over  his  early
death.  The  bas-relief  on  one  side  of  the  tomb  repre-
sents a  British  officer  carrying  a  flag  of  truce  and  a
letter  to  the  tent  of  Washington  with  the  request  of
Andre  that  as  a  soldier  he  might  be  shot,  and  not  hung.
The  request  was  not  granted,  but  the  sculptor  has
pictured  the  death  scene  as  Andre  wished  it.
General  Burgoyne,  whose  surrender  at  Saratoga  lost
America  to  England,  has  no  monument.  He  was  not
buried  in  the  Abbey,  but  in  the  North  cloister.
In  one  place  we  notice  a  slab  which  records  the  fact
that  the  grave  beneath  was  the  resting  .  place  for  a
time  of  the  body  of  George  Peabody.  On  the  slab  are
also  carved  the  words  of  his  early  prayer  that  if  God
prospered  him  he  would  render  some  memorial  service
to  his  fellow-men.  Do  you  know  how  he  kept  his
word?

POETS'  CORNER  WESTMINSTER  ABBEY.
One  chapel  in  the  Abbey  is  called  Poets'  Corner.
In  it  are  buried  many  of  England's  great  warriors,  while
others  have   monuments,  busts  or  tablets.     Dickens


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ind  Thackeray  are  both  buried  here.  There  are  busts
m  Shakespeare  and  Milton  and  many  other  poets,  but
Longfellow  is  the  only  foreigner  honored  by  having
bis  bust  placed  in  the  Abbey.
