Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . shrine ?Friend of man—of God the servant, Advocate of truths divine—Taught and charmed as by no other, We have been, and hoped to beBat while waiting round thee. brother, For thy light—tis dark with thee ! 1)4 Dark with thee ?—No ! thy Creator, All whose creatures and svhose lawsThou didst love—shall give tliee greater Light than eart
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . shrine ?Friend of man—of God the servant, Advocate of truths divine—Taught and charmed as by no other, We have been, and hoped to beBat while waiting round thee. brother, For thy light—tis dark with thee ! 1)4 Dark with thee ?—No ! thy Creator, All whose creatures and svhose lawsThou didst love—shall give tliee greater Light than earths—as earth thy God, thy godlike spirit, Back we give in filial trust:Thy cold clay—we grieve to bear it To ils chamber—BUT WE MUST. An immense concourse was present, and it seemed as if all were mourners whofollowed his remains to their resting-place in the cemetery of Mount Auburn,a most beautiful enclosure, situated in Cambridge and Watertown, about fourmiles from Boston. A monument, a view of which is given below, has beenerected over his grave, near the entrance to this interesting city of the dead,by the munificence of William Sturges of Boston, bearing on it, as an inscrip-tion, a sufficient epitaph—simply, Tomb of Spurzheim at Mount Auburn. 532 HENRY CLAV
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