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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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ted autumnal foliage, the image of tlie blue sky,and the distant stars. In the midst of this varied beauty,whilst surrounded on all sides by the emblems of death,the scene is highly impressive. THE NAMELESS GRAVE. 285 THE NAMELESS GRAVE. By Miss L. E. Landon. A NAMELESS grave, — there is no stone To sanctify the dead:Oer it the willow droops alone, With only wild flowers spread. O, there is nought to interest here, No record of a name,A trumpet call upon the ear. High on the roll of fame. I will not pause beside a tomb Where nothing calls to mindAught that can brighten mortal gloom, Or elevate mankind ; — No glorious memory to efface The stay of meaner clay ;No 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.
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LORINGS MONUMENT. Eeected to the memory of Elijah Loking, an emiuent merchant ofBoston. 288 MOUNT AUBURN. HUMILITY-IN ARCHITECTURE AND MONUMENTALSCULPTURE. There must be something particularly pleasing in thevirtue of humility, or it would 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 of

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