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Title: Mount Auburn: its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Flagg, Wilson, 1805-1884. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Mount Auburn cemetery. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston and Cambridge, J. Munroe and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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still pursues herheavenly themes — still inspires all music and all elo-quence, gives human interest to the revelations of heaven,and softens with divine fiith all human adversity. Blessed be sorrow ! and blessed the bianches of yew,and the wreaths of cypress and amaranth, Avith whichshe binds the brows of the dead, and fixes upon their tombthe symbols of the grave and of immortality ! Let us goto the resting-places of the dead, where the turfs lie inverduous heaps, and the flowers of the field scatter theirincense over them and consecrate their repose. Here willthe gentle mother receive us, and when we can no longerbe comforted by reason or philosophy, she lulls us torest by the assurances of religion, and drawing her lessonsfrom the objects of the material world, she points to thegorgeous hues of twilight in the dark forms of the clouds— the light of a happy religious faith glowing serenelyupon the formless masses that emblemize our sorrows. THE r.Nl). ri::J July U61. H 99 78 I
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