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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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coming,when thou, who didst once sleep upon her bosom, shaltsleep by her side, being gathered to the great congrega-tion of the dead. She will speak to thee, from her grave,of the worth of innocence, of the importance of chasten-ing the extravagance of thy young hopes, and of lookingthoughtfully and seriously upon the world as a scene oftrying duties and severe temptations, of the countlessevils that join hand in hand and follow on in the train ofa single folly, and of the momentous bearing of thypresent course upon thy peace in this life, and upon thycondition when thy dust shall be mingling with hers.Then, Let Vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown,In the deep dungeon of some gothic dome, Where night and desolation ever frown.Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave,With here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook, or fountains murmuring wave ;And many an evening smi shine sweetly on my grave.
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THE BINNEY MONUMENT. Tins monument is situated on Yarrow Path, and the figure upon it isan accurate likeness of the child it is intended to represent. It was ex-ecuted by Henry Dexter, being taken as the child was lying on herpallet, after death. The hands are crossed upon the breast, and the feetbare, and likewise crossed. The marble upon which this infant figurereposes, is surrounded by four small columns, supporting a slab, onwhich is an urn. This monument contains the first marble statue ex-ecuted in Boston, and stands in the lot of C. J. F. Binney, of Boston.The sculptured figure has been lately surrounded by a glass case. 5* 54 MOUNT AUBURN. FLOWERS AROUND GRAVES. Flowers have been regarded in all ages as the mostappropriate ornaments of a bnrial place, and have alwaysbeen strewed upon the bier and grave of a friend, as themost significant offerings of affection. So many tenderrecollections of flow^ers are linked with the memory ofa beloved friend who has departed from us, that

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