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Leaves from a Sketch-Book - Bits of Kent: Yew-Tree, Horton Kirby, 1876. 'The roadside churchyard of Horton Kirby is quite refreshing and even inviting to mortal repose, with its comfortable, plump rolls of soft green turf, like the bedding of an infant's couch snugly tucked up. I feel it would be nice to be dead and buried there. I would not live to the age of that ancient yew-tree, with its decayed and shattered trunk a mere fragment, but its branches still in leaf overhanging the stone coverlets of two or three more ambitious graves. It has experienced hundreds of winters and summers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.