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Identifier: mountauburnitssc00flag (find matches)
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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intellect whose heavenly trace Redeemd our earth : — away ! Ah, these are thoughts that well may rise On youths ambitious pride;But I will sit and moralize This lonely stone beside. Here thousands might have slept whose name Had been to thee a spell,To light thy flashing eyes with flame, — To bid thy young heart swell. 286 MOUNT AUBURN. Here miglit liave been a warriors rest,Some chief who bravely bled, With waving banners, sculptured crest,And laurel on his head. That laurel must have had its blood.That blood have caused its tear, — Look on the lovely solitude —What! wish for warfare here ! A poet might have slept, —what! heWhose restless heart first wakes Its life-pulse Into melody, Then oer it pines and breaks ? — He who hath sung of passionate love, His life a feverish tale : —O ! not the nightingale, the dove Would visit Its quiet vale. See, I have named your favorite two, —Each has been glad to crave Rest neath tlie turfs unbroken dew.And such a nameless grave !
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LORINGS MONUMENT. Erected to the memory of Elijah Loring, an eminent merchant ofBoston. 288 MOUNT AUBURN. HUMILITY IN ARCHITECTURE AND MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE. There must be sometliing particularly pleasing in thevirtue of humility, or it Avould not be so often affectedby those who do not possess it. I believe the expressionof this quality has never been regarded as one of thebeauties of architecture, because this art, from the earliestages, has been used almost entirely as an instrument ofambition. Still it is an important quality in home archi-tecture and private monumental sculpture, and its merit,if not acknowledged by artists in these departments, isclearly recognized in the works of the painters. Asmodesty is a virtue in the greatest as well as the least ofmen ; in like manner humility sets off the graces of everybeautiful structure and every beautiful house, from apeasants cottage to the mansion of a nobleman. Thepublic has committed the error of regarding humility asthe opposite

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