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Title: Mount Auburn: its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Flagg, Wilson, 1805-1884
Subjects: Mount Auburn Cemetery (Watertown and Cambridge, Mass.)
Publisher: Boston, Cambridge, J. Munroe and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lovely spot then seemed Like opening paradise to my young heart; And nature here in rich luxuriance teemed, Where monuments now rise of vying art: O ! why should pride in this still spot have part! Rather let nature in her wildness live, And oer all scenes her living hues impart. From whence the soul heavens blessing may derive. And feel its lagging powers again in life revive. The evening shades are fast assembling round. And to his airy seat each songster hies, While all is hushed throughout this hallowed ground. Save where from yonder mart low sounds arise. That lull the ear like gentle melodies. And now I bid these scenes a sad farewell. Where many a noble breast in quiet lies : Ere I again shall come, ah ! who. can tell How many a breathing form may seek its narrow cell. THE MOUNTFORT TOMB. This is a tomb in Willow Avenue, in which are depositel the remainsof Col. John IMountfort and his parents, who were, in 1855, transferredfi-om the ancient family tomb in Copps Hill Cemetery.
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^^/•«: RELIGION AND SCULPTURE. 81 RELIGION AND SCULPTUEE. From Chro.xicles of the Tombs. —By T. J. Pettigrew. It cannot fail to have been observed, tliat a correcttaste is generally found to be the accompaniment of truefeelino-s of relimous reverence. This is strono-ly exem-plified in the earlier monumental records, in which theexpressions of pious feelings are seen to unite most closelywith the examples on the tombs of the most refined ex-ecution. The secret sympathy by which such an unionis cemented it is easier to conceive than to express. If,however, we need illustration of this truth, survey ourancient cathedrals, the ecclesiastical edifices erected whenthe deepest religious feelings were entertained, and theywill satisfy us on this. There is an architecture whichwe all feel to be peculiarly appropriate to purposes of adevotional character, and whenever this is departed from,a violence is done to the feelings, which all must be readyto admit, they have at one time or other e

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