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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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and asked if all was oer; — If they who meet on earth, shall meet no more ; — If but this brief companionship in woe, Was all that life or love on earth mio-ht know ? I importuned the grave, as with a friend, Beseeching it but once its veil to rend, — To tell me why, with such oerwhelming strife, It even trod upon the steps of life ? And death, eternity, the grave, replied, We have no voice for doubt, thou child of pride. My baffled spirit bowed in anguish low, —The victim of a doom it could not know :Above, beneath, without a mark or bound.Was space, illimitable, dark, profound : —And in the agony of struggling powers.It asked why such a mockery was ours ? Then came a low, sweet voice, like music sent Upon the dark abyss, where storms had spent Their wrath, — Twas thine, meek Faith, and thus it spoke.Stilling the deep whose waves so wildly broke ; —* Trust thou in Heavenly Love ; the power wdiich gaveThee life, can lift from doubt, and from the grave. v^i ■A^ 4i<-
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^ •«- .Ya ^^^ ^-iOl £ostcm ALVIN ADAMS THE ADAMS MONUMENT. This is an elegant monument of pure white marble, situated onSpruce Avenue, and erected by Alvin Adams. 4* 42 MOUNT AUBURN. SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. (Compiled.) The earliest tombs found in Great Britain, which canbe considered as at aH of an architectural character, arethe stone coffins of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.The covers of these were at first simply coped ; after-wards frequently ornamented with crosses of variouskinds, and other devices, and sometimes with inscrip-tions. Subsequently, they were sculptured with recum-bent figures in high relief; but still generally diminishingin width from the head to the feet, to fit the coffins, ofwhich they formed the lids. Many of the figures of thisperiod represent knights in armor, with their legs crossed.These are supposed to have been either Templars, orsuch as had joined, or vowed to join, in a crusade to theHoly Land. These figures usually had canop

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