. Records of walks and talks with nature . 777. Jan., 1915. RECORDS. Ill Aside from the death heads, emblemswere very little employed on stones of earlydates in onr grave-yards, but we found onein Rutland on which the head of a quaker-ish looking woman is depicted with a doveon either shoulder. The date is 1760; fig. 23. On another Rutland stone, dated 1787,we find a very primly dressed woman witha rather sanctimonious expression. On eith-side of her is a very stiff looking plant, andon her extreme left is a rather singular fig-ure of what may be intended as anotherplant with three branches, f
. Records of walks and talks with nature . 777. Jan., 1915. RECORDS. Ill Aside from the death heads, emblemswere very little employed on stones of earlydates in onr grave-yards, but we found onein Rutland on which the head of a quaker-ish looking woman is depicted with a doveon either shoulder. The date is 1760; fig. 23. On another Rutland stone, dated 1787,we find a very primly dressed woman witha rather sanctimonious expression. On eith-side of her is a very stiff looking plant, andon her extreme left is a rather singular fig-ure of what may be intended as anotherplant with three branches, fig. 24. In per-fect keeping with the figures is the epitaphbelow them:- The just behold with sweet delightThe blessed three iu oneAnd strong affection in their sightOn Gods incarnate son. These lines suggest that the three plantseach having three branches may be emblem-atic of the Trinity. An epitaph on a stone dated 1788, foundin Rutland, reads:- Behold my friend in me you seeAn emblem of what you must be. 112 RECORDSFig. 23. J-an. Barre, Mass. 1835. Jan. 1915. RECORDS. 113 And on another in the same place, dat-ed 1791, we find:- Death is a debt to nature dueWhich I have paid and so must you. Both containing the warning given onearlier stones. But it was not until laterthat any indication of an idea of a futureexistence occurs in epitaphs. This is onefound in Rutland on a stone dated 1799: Fig. 26. akM 4 i^A V/^H- It l\w © Sandstone. Barre Down in the dark and silent bedThe stroke of Death hath laid my headGods trump shall sound I hope to riseAnd meet my Saviour in the skies. On a stone in Osterville, dated 1802, butmuch weathered, is inscribed:- 114 RECORDS. Jan., 1915. O death thou h-st conquer., me By thy dart Im slain But blessed Christ has conquerd. thee And I shall rise again. The weeping willow and funereal urn(the latter with or without a flaming top),began to appear in the beginning of thenineteenth century. The willow was oftenconventionalized, but was in som
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