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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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ll,calm beauty, in the embrace of death — the bride of thegrave. The gloom and silence of the room, the rigidfeatures of the dead, the low solemn chant of the priest,and the noiseless ceremonies of the Catholic burial ser- 70 MOUNT AUBURN. vice, whencontrasted witli the severe simplicity of theProtestant service, produced an effect which it is impos-sible to foro;et. A young child is always carried to the grave in therobe in which it was christened ; and fresh white flowersare strewn upon its coffin. What can be more appro-priate or more beautiful ? It lies down in its innocenceand beautV, like a youno; flower broken bv some rudewind; and our grief for its loss is tempered by thethought that it has escaped the snares and toils to whichhumanity is subject; that its young spirit has flown back,unsullied by sin, to the Being from whom it emanated.It is to the French part of the population that these cus-toms belong ; and in these and many others, they remaindistinct from the Americans.
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^-^ &7fa.yf^s, ZrlA.BosCa^ VIEW FROM CONSECRATION DELL, VIEW FROM CONSECRATION DELL. In front is a view of the Pond, and of a marble sarcophagus, inscribed,Martha Coffin Derby. 1832. In the middle and on the left we see four marble tombstones, the firsta sarcophagus over the remains of Abel Kendall, In the other group is the monument erected to the memory of FrancisStanton, by his friends and associates. 72 MOUNT AUBURN. ON THE rRINClPLES OF ART AS APPLIED TO RURAL CEMETERIES. It is not many years since our modern rural cemeterieswere established. An innate sense of the superior influ-ence of the burial place of the dead, when allied with thebeauty of nature and art, first suggested the plan of suchgrounds. There was also a necessity for burying thedead of our cities in the suburbs. This latter part oftheir original purpose has been fully accomplished. Butthere are some imperfections in the manner of carryingout the original design of our rural cemeteries, which arefair subjects o

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