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| | Washington Square |
 | | Long trenches the width of the Square were hastily dug on the Square's south side a permanent barracks for the martyrs of the War of Independence. |
 | | We leave the square with the words of Christopher Morley, the minstrel of meandering, who mused, "And as one walks and speculates among all this visible panorama, beating one's brains to catch some passing snapshots of it, watching, listening, imagining, the whole hullabaloo becomes extraordinarily precious. |
 | | Within 25 years of Penn's arrival, however, the square was being used as a potter's field and a burial yard for strangers in the city. |
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