Mount Auburn: its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons . here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook or fountains murmuring wave,And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave! We have the similar testimony of another poet. AllanCunningham was offered by Chantrey a place in his ownnew elaborate mausoleum. The reply w^as, — No, no. Ill not be built over when I am dead; Illlie where the wmd shall blow, and the daisy grow uponmy grave. 12 HARVARD HILL. The spot that contains the grave of President Kirkland, has beennamed Harvard Hill. It was purchased by the Corporation of theUniversity
Mount Auburn: its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons . here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook or fountains murmuring wave,And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave! We have the similar testimony of another poet. AllanCunningham was offered by Chantrey a place in his ownnew elaborate mausoleum. The reply w^as, — No, no. Ill not be built over when I am dead; Illlie where the wmd shall blow, and the daisy grow uponmy grave. 12 HARVARD HILL. The spot that contains the grave of President Kirkland, has beennamed Harvard Hill. It was purchased by the Corporation of theUniversity of Cambridge for a burial place for the officers of theinstitution, and some of its students. The Kirkland monument is anornate sarcophagus, having on its top an outspread scroll, upon whichrests a book. On one side of the monument are these words : — Johannes Thornton Kirkland, V. D. M., S. T. D. Decessit Aprilis Die XXVL, Anno Do ini AiETATIS SUiE LXIX. On the opposite side is this inscription : — JoiiANNi Thornton Kirkland, & GRAVES OF CHILDREN. 1^5 GRAVES OF CHILDREN. There is nothing of a melancholy description more in-teresting or picturesque than the little grassy mound thatmarks the grave of an infant. It takes hold of the feelingsmore sensibly than other graves, and impresses upon themind the reflection that the little occupant had not lived theallotted period of human life, but was cut down prema-turely like a budding flower, before it had opened its eyesto the rays of the morning. On beholding it, we feel atender sympathy, as for one who has been deprived ofjoys that were prepared for his fruition. It calls to mindthe innocence of the child, its playfulness, its hopefulness,and its occasional sorrows ; and the little mound becomesexpressive of many aflecting images of hope and disap-pointment, of maternal love, and its early think of the stern disease that deprived the youngchild of its life, of sufterings which it could not speak,
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