| A throng {of
bearded men,} [Adjective to "throng"]
{in
sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned
hats},
[Adjective to "men"] inter-mixed
{with
women}, [Adverb
to
"inter-mixed"] some wearing
hoods, and others bareheaded,
was assembled {in front} [Adverb
to "was assembled"] {of a
wooden edifice},
[Adjective to "front"]
the door {of which}
[Adjective to "door"] was
heavily timbered {with oak},
[Adverb
to "was timbered"] and studded
{with
iron spikes}.
[Adverb
to "was studded"]
The founders {of
a new colony},
[Adjective to "founders"]
whatever Utopia {of human virtue
and
happiness}
[Adjective
to "Utopia"] they might originally
project, have invariably
recognised it {among their earliest
practical necessities}
[Adverb to "have recognized"]
to allot a portion
{of the virgin
soil} [Adjective to "portion"]
{as a cemetery},
[Adverb to "to allot"]
and another portion {as the site}
[Adverb to "to allot"]
{of a
prison}.
[Adjective to "site"]
{In accordance} [Adverb
to "may be
assumed"] {with this rule} [Adjective
to "accordance"] it may
safely be assumed that the forefathers {of
Boston}
[Adjective
to "forefathers"] had built
the first prison-house somewhere
{in the Vicinity} [Adverb
to "had built" or Adjective to "somewhere"]
{of Cornhill},
[Adjective to "Vicinity"]
almost as seasonably
[Note # 3] as
they marked out the first
burial-ground, {on
Isaac Johnson's lot},
[Adverb to "marked out"]
and
{round
about his grave},
[Adverb to "marked out"] which
subsequently
became the nucleus {of all the congregated
sepulchres}
[Adjective to "nucleus"] {in the
old churchyard} [Adjective to
"sepilchres"] {of King's Chapel}.
[Adjective to "churchyard"]
Certain it is that, some fifteen or twenty years {after
the
settlement} [Adjective to
"years"] {of the town},
[Adjective to
"settlement"] the wooden
jail was already marked {with
weather-stains and
other indications} [Adverb to "was
marked"] {of age},
[Adjective to "indications"]
which gave a yet
darker aspect {to its beetle-browed
and gloomy front}.
[Adverb to "gave"] The rust
{on the ponderous iron-work}
[Adjective to "rust"] {of its oaken
door} [Adjective to "iiron-work"]
looked more antique {than
anything else} [Adverb to
"more" Note #1]
{in the New World}.
[Adjective to "anything else"]
{Like all} [Adjective to
the following "it"] that
pertains {to
crime},
[Adverb to "pertains"] it
seemed never to have known a
youthful era. {Before this ugly
edifice}, [Adverb
to "was"] and
{between it and the wheel-track}
[Adverb to "was"] {of the
street},
[Adjective to "wheel-track"]
was a grass-plot, much
overgrown {with burdock, pig-weed,
apple-pern, and
such
unsightly vegetation},
[Adverb to "overgrown"]
which evidently
found something congenial {in the
soil}
[Adverb to "found"]
that had so early borne the black flower {of
civilised
society},
[Adjective to "flower"]
a prison. But {on one side}
[Adverb to "was"] {of the portal},
[Adjective to "side"]
and rooted
almost {at the threshold},
[Adverb to "rooted"] was
a wild
rose-hush, covered, {in this month}
[Adverb to "covered"]
{of
June},
[Adjective to "month"] {with
its delicate gems},
[Adverb
to "covered"] which might
be imagined to offer their fragrance
and fragile beauty {to the prisoner}
[Adverb to "to offer"]
as he
went in,[Note #2]
and {to the condemned
criminal} [Adverb to
"to offer"] as
he came forth {to his doom},
[Adverb to "came" or
to "forth"] {in token} [Adverb
all the way back to "to offer"] that the
deep heart {of Nature} [Adjective
to "heart"] could pity and be
kind {to him.} [Adverb
to "be" or to "kind"]
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