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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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t mhls the walls Of kingly sepulchres en wrought with brass ;And the long shadow of the cypress falls Athwart the common grass. The living of gone time Builded their glorious cities by the sea ;And awful in their greatness sat sublime, As if no chano;e coidd be. There was the eloquent tongue; The poets heart; the sages soul was there ;And loving w^omen with their children young. The faithful and the fair ! They were, but they are not; Suns rose and set, and earth put on her bloom.Whilst man, submitting to the common lot, Went down into the tomb. And still amid the wrecks Of mighty generations passed away.Earths boonest growth, the fragrant wild-flower decks The tombs of yesterday. 172 MOUNT AUBURN. And in the twilight deep, Go veiled women forth, like those who went,Sisters of Lazarus, to the grave to weep. To breathe the low lament. The dead are everywhere ! Whereer is love, or tenderness, or faith ;Where power, form, pleasure, pride ; whereer Life is, or was, is death ! ■s ^ >^
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HAZEL DELL. Two Tombs in Hazel Dell, belonging to C. G. Edwards and John S.Wright, constructed of fine granite, with a chacte Grecian front in plainstyle, and calculated for endurance. 15* 174 MOUNT AUBURN. ON INSCRIPTIVE WRITING. By Dr. Deake. To COMMEMORATE a deceased or absent friend, to ex-press the sensations and moral effect arising from tliecontemplation of beautiful scenery, to perpetuate tlieremembrance of some remarkable event, or to inscribethe temple or the statue with appropriate address, appearto be the chief purposes of the Inscription. It is evidentthat no species of composition, when well written, canbetter answer the wishes of the friends of virtue thanthis ; and almost every polished nation, therefore, hasmade use of it to impress the feeling mind and incite itto emulation. Amono- the Greeks it was cultivated withsuccess, and the Anthology abounds in pieces of thiskind, written with the most elegant simplicity. Severalof the English poets, likewise, have excelled in

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