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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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han the proud-est column of marble. THE PAUPERS DEATH-BED, By Collins. Tread softly — bow the head —In reverent silence bow —No passing bell doth toll —Yet an immortal soulIs passing now. Stranger ! however great.Though laurels deck thy brow,There s one in that poor shed —One by that paltry bed —Greater than thou. Beneath that beggars roof,Lo ! death doth keep his state :Enter — no crowds attend —Enter — no guards defendThis palace gate. 236 MOUNT AUBURN. That pavement damp and coldNo smiling courtiers tread ;One silent woman standsLifting; with meao;re handsA dying head. No mino-lino; voices sound —An infant wail alone ;A sob suppressed — againThat short, deep gasp, and thenThe parting groan. Oh ! chano-e — Oh ! wondrous chano-e !Burst are the prison Ijars —This moment there, so low,So agonized, and nowBeyond the stars ! Oh ! change — stupendous change !There lies the soulless clod.The sun eternal breaks —The new immortal wakes —Wakes with his God. ^a-
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-^^Soyto N.H.EARLE. THE EARLE MONUMENT. This is a beautiful slender marble column, situated on Mistletoe Path.On the top of the monument is a devotional figure of an angel child.The front is tastefully decorated with wreaths of flowers. The followingare the inscriptions upon it: — • My Wife axd Child. Oh lovely pair so soft and mild,In equal beauty dust;Our Saviour blest the little child,And such as they are blest. N. H. EARLE. 238 MOUNT AUBURN. TREES IN MOUNT AUBURN. It is not generally understood that there may be toomany trees, as well as too many flowers, in a rural ceme-tery, too many for the beauty as well as for the conveni-ence of the place. When trees are crowded closelytogether, they lose their lateral branches and all theircharacteristic beauty. One broad-spreading tree thatcovers a large space of ground is more serviceable forshade, and more beautiful and attractive in its appearance,than ten or twelve tall, slender trees occupying the samesjjace. This remark is partic

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