. Dearborn's guide through Mount Auburn : with seventy-six engravings for the benefit of strangers desirous of seeing the clusters of monuments with the least trouble ; with the established rules for the preservation of the cemetery, purchase of lots, and other concerns ... 47 JOHN TAPPANs monument. LOT 307. At the junction of Linden and Narcissus Paths is a broken shaft, as anemblem of an unfinished course of life; with a rose bush limb, fromwhich five of its flowers and buds have been broken off, leaving fiveroses on the principal stem; betokening the number of the social circlealive and dec


. Dearborn's guide through Mount Auburn : with seventy-six engravings for the benefit of strangers desirous of seeing the clusters of monuments with the least trouble ; with the established rules for the preservation of the cemetery, purchase of lots, and other concerns ... 47 JOHN TAPPANs monument. LOT 307. At the junction of Linden and Narcissus Paths is a broken shaft, as anemblem of an unfinished course of life; with a rose bush limb, fromwhich five of its flowers and buds have been broken off, leaving fiveroses on the principal stem; betokening the number of the social circlealive and *No bitter tears for thee be shed, Blossom of being! dead and gone ! With flowers alone we strew thy bed,O blest departed one ! When all of life, a rosy ray Blushed into dawn, and passed away. LEVI THAXTER. LOT 406, LINDEN PATH. God is love. ?Thou wert so like a form of light, That Heaven benignly called thee hence,Ere yet the world could breathe one blight Oer thy sweet innocence :And thou, that bright home to bless,Ilast passed with all thy loveliness.


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