dead-and-forgotten

Updated: August 13, 2026

For the rising sun had for ten centuries found Oldenhurst in its place, from the heavy stone terrace that covered the dead-and-forgotten wall, where a Roman sentinel had once paced, to the little grating in the cloistered quadrangle, where it had seen a Cistercian brother place the morning dole.

Bret Harte - A Phyllis of the Sierras