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So great was the maze of walls that it was difficult to tell where the road ran for more than a score or so of yards ahead. But at last I traced its sweep close by where a great single-slab altar stood on its massive pillar, with a sacred stone-circle jutting out of the bushes around it.
The Sonnet on a Stone Circle which opens with these words is conceived in a strain of emotion never more needed than now, when Abury itself owes its preservation to the munificence of a private individual, when stone-circle or round-tower, camp or dolmen, are destroyed to save a few shillings, and occupation-roads are mended with the immemorial altars of an unknown God. "Speak, Giant-mother!
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