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Title: Mount Auburn: its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Flagg, Wilson, 1805-1884. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Mount Auburn cemetery. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston and Cambridge, J. Munroe and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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soon, like her who lies below: Thus, all mankind are doomed alike to die. And buried thus will for a season lie ; But, as the flowers in spring awake and bloom. We too shall rise immortal from the tomb ! VII. I gathered up my flowers ; I roamed no more :But learned a truth I scarcely knew before.I learned the state of those we call the dead;And on my sisters tomb their hopes had read;Yet still sometimes I cannot cease to weep.To think how drear the places where they sleep !I dried my tears; I could no longer roam ;And to my sister bore the garland home :But neer shall I forget those early hours,When first I went abroad to gather flowers. 103 GARDNER BREWERS MONUMENT. Tins monument is situated opposite the south side of the Chapel, andis one of the most beautiful productions of art in Mount Auburn. Itis in pointed style, and of fine white marble. This monument bears the following inscription : - Gardner, only son of Gardner and Mart Brewer, Died August 19, 1857. Aged 15 years 8 months.
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W^^mm^. - GARDNER BRLWEIR. ANCIENT FUNEREAL PRACTICES. 105 ANCIENT FUNEREAL PRACTICES. Selected and Compiled. Notwithstanding the melancholy gloom which theancients cast over all their ideas of death and the grave,both in their moral and poetical writings, they appear inreality to have endeavored as much as possible to lightenthose impressions, and place at a distance those darkphantoms of the imagination. Accordingly, the deepand solemn sadness attending our burials ; the blackshades of yews and cypresses; the dreary charnel houseand vaulted sepulchres ; the terrific appendages of mould-ering bones and winding sheets ; The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave.The deep, damp vault, the darkness, and the worm, which, from custom, form so great a part of the horrorwe feel at the thoughts of death, were to them unknown.The corpse consumed by funereal fires, and the ashes en-closed in urns, and deposited in the earth, presented nooffensive object or idea. Besides, to dissipate th

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