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    Cemeteries.

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    stoni-& e $ s and gloom of th § c % shurch-y & m . It would be s & r ding gall to the vinegar , On the other hand * the garden-, like appearance $ f the Cemetery , it * tasteful biddings , 4 una ^ s of trees , itg evergreens & nd flowers , surrpwjjdej f by a landscape rich \ n ^ fciyation

    sweeping m extent , varied m ch ^ apter ? remind U 3 that in tlie i » icbt of death we are in life ; a < nd a « flowers are jaot prohibited by ^ any law of nature from growing pn ffmves ? there are colours and terms , brierht i »» V vviyswo i % ** p * A mv ^ M ^ Pj M-il ^ ii O

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    " Young , beautiful * an # good , Qo 4 in hi » mercy numbered her with his anyels at the early age df 17 . " It seems as impious to doubt the faith as the We , which dictated this inscription * A fact 13 as ^ unied with all the confidence of ^ n eye-witness * The letters with which the marble

    is firmly indented showing a masculine decision of hand , not being sketched with a fanciful and hesitating pencil , nor to be erased by a sponge , are but faint tvoes of the vivid image

    stamped on the mind of the bereaved parent that his young , his beautiful * his virtuous child , is now and for ever an angel of light , admitted as 9 m of that burning row of bright seraphim ministering before the throne of the Most IJigh *

    The united strength of Jove and grief trainples down all doubt-rrtheir force , Kke thfriaf Mtehaeland Raphael , roils back the screen which divides fcftrtji from heaven , and to the fathers eye revejafe thq rene ) ved form

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/51/