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Excerpt from Dervorgilla, Lady of Galloway: And Her Abbey of the Sweet Heart
No other ancient building in Scotland gives one quite the same impression as the "Abbey of the Sweet Heart" in Galloway. This is doubtless due not only to the interest of its architecture and the quiet loveliness of the landscape surrounding it, but to the pathos of the story which its name commemorates. The very atmosphere around the gaunt tower and the shattered aisles of Dervorgilla's Abbey seems laden with the fragrance of the spice-embalmed heart which, in its costly casket, was her companion for twenty years, and in death was placed upon her breast in her grave, here in her native land of Galloway. The desecrated choir where Dervorgilla was laid, where, let us hope, she yet lies, seems still to be sanctified by her devotion and her piety; and when the setting sun deepens to crimson their Scottish red sandstone, the ancient walls seem aglow with the memory of her burning love and faith.
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Excerpt from Dervorgilla, Lady of Galloway: And Her Abbey of the Sweet Heart
Galloway Archaeological Association for kind 1 to use illustrations; and to the Reverend George and Sir R. Rowand Anderson of Edinburgh looked over the proofs.
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