. Records of walks and talks with nature . gan to appear in the beginning of thenineteenth century. The willow was oftenconventionalized, but was in some cases quiteelaborately rendered. The urn, originallyintended to contain the ashes of crematedbodies, dates back to ancient Roman times. On the preceding page, fig. 23, we givean illustration of a rather ornate stone fromBarre, Mass, bearing date of 1835, with wil-low and urn and side urns, all with flames. Among the interesting epitaphs whichwe have gathered we have space only forone found on a double stone at Osterville,dated 1807. There wer
. Records of walks and talks with nature . gan to appear in the beginning of thenineteenth century. The willow was oftenconventionalized, but was in some cases quiteelaborately rendered. The urn, originallyintended to contain the ashes of crematedbodies, dates back to ancient Roman times. On the preceding page, fig. 23, we givean illustration of a rather ornate stone fromBarre, Mass, bearing date of 1835, with wil-low and urn and side urns, all with flames. Among the interesting epitaphs whichwe have gathered we have space only forone found on a double stone at Osterville,dated 1807. There were two arching headsand each bore a rising sun. The stone ev-idently marked the graves of twins one ofwhom lived six days, the other six months. 1915. RECORDS. 115 In spite of their peculiarity, the lines are pa-thetic. We from one gracious God was seniUnto our parents we was lentUnto our God we must returnDont let our tender parents mourn. Like the gathering places of the livingcommunities of the dead contain what ap- Fig. 27. mm^^^. Sandstone. Barre, Mass. pear to be mysteries that canont be readilysolved. We have recorded one stone found 116 RECORDS J as. 1S15. at Deerfield(see page 58) which marks whatseems to be an unknown grave, and now inBarre we find five more singular are rough slabs of sandstone scatteredabout the grave-yard, but, while appearingto be quite old, we have no way of tellingtheir exact age as they bear no date, and,in fact, nothing save initials. Two of thesemysterious stones are illustrated in figs 26and 27.
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