Mount Auburn: its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons . eared, and shrivelled up his heart. So from the way in which he was trained up, THE FUNERAL. AN ECLOGUE. 197 His feet departed not; he toiled and moiled, Poor muck-worm ! through his threescore years and ten,And when the earth shall now be shovelled on that which served him for a soul were stillWithin its husk, t would still be dirt to dirt. STRANGER. Yet your next newspapers will blazon him,For industrv and honorable wealth,A bright example. TOWNSMAN. Even half a millionGets him no other praise. But come this way,Some twelve mon
Mount Auburn: its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons . eared, and shrivelled up his heart. So from the way in which he was trained up, THE FUNERAL. AN ECLOGUE. 197 His feet departed not; he toiled and moiled, Poor muck-worm ! through his threescore years and ten,And when the earth shall now be shovelled on that which served him for a soul were stillWithin its husk, t would still be dirt to dirt. STRANGER. Yet your next newspapers will blazon him,For industrv and honorable wealth,A bright example. TOWNSMAN. Even half a millionGets him no other praise. But come this way,Some twelve months hence, and you will find his virtuesTrimly set forth in lapidary , with her torch beside, and little cupidsDropping upon his urn their marble tears. 17* THE BOWDITCH STATUE- The Bronze Statue of Dr. Bowditch stands upon a granite foundation,facing the main entrance to Mount Auburn, and is the work of BallHughes, an English artist, formerly a resident in the United States. Itis said to be a very correct likeness of the great MOURNING CUSTOMS. 199 MOURNING CUSTOMS. By Mrs. Stone. Hardly more diversified are the nations who peoplethe earth, than are the customs and observances used bythem to signahze the arrival of the commonest of allvisitors, though most awful of all guests, the blackveiled king of the dead. The Jews of old rent theirgarments and sprinkled dust on their heads, a practicefollowed to this day in Abyssinia. The practice oftearing the garments is, we are told, commuted by theJews of these economical days into carefully cuttingaway a small, and probably a perfectly insignificant por-tion thereof. They bottled their tears also, a customreferred to in the 56th Psalm; and that this practice wascustomarv with the Greeks and Romans, the number oflachrymatories, or tear bottles, found among their sepul-chral remains, sufficiently testifies. A late writer has pointed out the analogy between amourning custom of the Australian savages of to-day,
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