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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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drives us at his will, — We work as slaves in his employ. Once the earth for us was made ; We revelled in its sunshine warm ;Ours were the flowers that decked the glade. Our plaything was the wintry storm.Now what we own is marked by sextons spade, We gaze upon a lock of hair, And marvel if its gold were ours ; — If eyes so faded erst were fair ; — If cheeks once blossomed like the flowers, So pallid now and lined by care ! OUR LOST CHILDHOOD. Earths childhood conies with every Spring ; But ours soon spent returns no more;Earth sees but once its blossoming, Time counts but once its treasures oer ; —But memry still to it will cling. And Faith points out where yet againThe Soul its robes of white shall wear Without a blemish or a stain :Blest is the Angel that shall bear The Soul its childhood to rei»;ain. 2G1 OXNARDS MONUMENT. This is a Gothic monument erected to the memory of Henry Oxnard,■who in his early life was a sea-captain, and afterwards became a mer-chant in Boston.
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MONUMENTAL TREES. MONUMENTAL TREES This is the bowei- she loved,And here is the tree she planted. 263 In some parts of tlie continent of Europe, parents, inin compliance with an ancient custom, are in the habitof planting a tree at the birth of every child. This treeis ever afterwards identified with the individual forwhom it was planted; it is associated with his life, and,when he is dead, it is viewed by his friends and com-panions as a living monument to his memory. I haveoften thought that we might derive from this custom ahint, to be turned to an important advantage ; that, inin the place of marble, our departed friends might becommemorated by a noble tree, that should, every yearwhen it put forth its leaves, awaken fresh memories ofthe dead. After the remains of a friend are laid in thegrave, a tree .should be selected, not in the cemetery,but in our own grounds, and dedicated to his memory.A cenotaph placed in the ground, near the tree, shouldindicate the dedication of the tree

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