. 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 ... CHARLES T. HILDRETH. LOT 291, JASMINE PATH. We frail and blind, to whom our own dark moon,AVilh iis few phases is a mystery !Back to the duit, most arrogant; Be still!Deep silence is thy wisdom! Boast no more !But let thy life be one long sigh of prayer,An hymn of praise, till from thy broken clay,At its last gasp, tlie unq
. 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 ... CHARLES T. HILDRETH. LOT 291, JASMINE PATH. We frail and blind, to whom our own dark moon,AVilh iis few phases is a mystery !Back to the duit, most arrogant; Be still!Deep silence is thy wisdom! Boast no more !But let thy life be one long sigh of prayer,An hymn of praise, till from thy broken clay,At its last gasp, tlie unquenched spirit rise,And imforgotten, mid unnumbered worlds,Ascend to Him, from whom its essence 38 SAMUEL APPLETON. LOT 411, CEDAR HILL. Is it in the flight of human yearsTo push elerniiy from living thought,Ami smother souls immorlal in the dust ? —A soul imiportal, spending all her fires,Wasting her strength in busied idleness,Thrown into lumuU, raptured or alarmedAt aught this seene can threaten or indulge,—Resembles ocean into tempest waft a feather or to drown a fly.
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