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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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mplemight incite the living to virtuous designs. The Egyp-tians ever blended death with life. At their feasts, theirbridals, the rigid features of the dead, croAvned and girdedwith lifes fading flowers, were beside them, and its fleet-ing joys became more precious from their contrast with 92 MOUNT AUBURN. the silence of the tomb. If they who worshipped beforethe mystic veil of Isis, or hung with awe upon the shadowywords of the priestess of the tripod and the dove ; if theymade death the companion of their daily paths, — shouldnot we, to whom the hopes of revelation are given, accus-tom ourselves to this inevitable decree. We are taughtfrom our early childhood to look with too shuddering asense of dread upon the grave, and in our efforts to shakeoff its memory, we lose the healthful reflections thatshould spring from its contemplation. It is better evento lose ourselves in vain speculations of what may be,than to live in a constant forgetfulness of what is sure tobefall us. ^ V-iXr,
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THE LOWELL MONUMENT. This monument is built of granite, and stands in Willow Avenue. Thename of Lowell is carved in raised letters upon its front, and themonument was erected by the executors of the late John Lowell, Jr., tothe memory of his wife, who died a few years after their marriage, andof his two daughters, his only children, who did not long survive theirmother. The Monument bears this inscription : — ERECTEDBY ORDER OF JoHX Lowell, Jr., IN memory of His Wife and Children AS A TESTIMONLUi OF THEIR ViRTUES AND OF His Affectionate Remembrance. 94 MOUNT AUBURN. MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE. When we are walking in a rural cemetery, it wouldbe instructive to note tlie different emotions with whichwe contemplate the various objects that greet our sight.We view this monument without any feeling at all; thenext may prompt us to say to ourselves How muchmoney has been lavished here ! The builder must havebeen either a very rich or a very foolish man. Wepass on to another, in which we behold

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