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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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ves us at his will, — We work as slaves in his employ. Once the earth for us was made ; We revelled in its sunshine warm ;Ours were the flowers that decked the glade, Our plaything Avas the wintry storm.Now what we own is marked by sextons spade. We gaze upon a lock of hair, And marvel if its o-old were ours : — & If eyes so faded erst were fair ; — If cheeks once blossomed like the flowers.So ixdlid now and lined bv care ! OUR LOST CHILDHOOD. 261 Earths childhood comes with every Spring; Bat ours soon spent returns no more;Earth sees but once its blossoming, Time counts but once its treasures oer ; —But memry still to it will cling. And Faith points out where yet againThe Soul its robes of white shall wear Without a blemish or a stain :Blest is the Angel that shall bear The Soul its childhood to regain. OXNARDS MONUMENT. This is a Gothic monument erected to the memory of ITexry Oxnard,who in his early life was a sea-captain, and afterwards became a mer-chant in Boston. ^s
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MONUMENTAL TREES. 263 MONUMENTAL TREES. This is the bower she loved.And here is the tree she planted. In some parts of the continent of Europe, parents, inin compliance with an ancient custom, are in the habitof planting a tree at the birth of every child. This treeis ever afterwards identified with the individual forwhom it vias planted; it is associated with his life, and,wdien he is dead, it is viewed by his friends and com-panions as a living monument to his memory. I haveoften thouo-ht that we mio-ht derive from this custom ahint, to be turned to an important advantage ; that, inin the place of marble, our departed friends might becommemorated by a noble tree, that should, every yearwhen it put forth its leaves, awaken fresh memories* ofthe dead. After the remains of a friend are laid in thegrave, a tree should be selected, not in the cemetery,but in our own grounds, and dedicated to his memory.A cenotaph placed in the ground, near the tree, shouldindicate the dedication of the t

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