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Wiih the established rules for the preserraiion of the Cemetery,
purchase of Lots, and other concerns.

EIGHTH EDlTIOHr.

ENGRAVED PLAN OF THE CEMETERY.

PUBLISHED BY NATHANIEL S. DEARBORN,

No. %\ School Street,

BOSTON.

TOWER OR OBSERVATORY.

This beautiful structure, erected during the past year, at a
cost of $19,000, stands on the summit of Mt. Auburn. It is
built of fine hammered Granite, the stones extending through
the wall, and being squared on all sides, renders it very durable.

It is sixty feet in height, affording a fine panoramic view of
the Cemetery and surrounding country.

It is formed on the general plan of some of the round towers
of the feudal ages, and contains a gallery, battlements, and a
spiral staircase.

DIRECT GUIDE

THROUGH MT. AUBURN CEMETERY.

Tlie front line of the Cemelery is East to West, — and Central Avenue fronting the
gale, is from llie North to the South.
The G3 engravinars of the Mausoleums are to be met with, progressively, as named in
this (Urect guide, viz : Spurzheim's being first, and that of Samuel Story, Jr., last.

Fiom the gate, advance in front up Central Ave. and on the left, on an
elevated plot is the monument to Spurzheim, and a little farther, is the
metal bronzed statue of Bowditch, in a sitting posture ; then turn to the
west into Chapel Avenue, and view the beautiful Temple appropriated
to the saufctuary services of the grave : pass on into Pine Avenue, and
there are the Shaw and Dorr monuments ; continue Pine Avenue to the
north-west, which leads to Green Brier and Yarrow Paths, and there are
the monuments to Fisher, Haughton, Fessenden, Channing, Curtis,
Turner, Bangs, the sculptured child of Binney, Doane, Gossler, Allen,
witli numerous other pillars and obelisks to meet the eye; after this
examination turn into Heliotrope and Heath Paths, for Sculpture of
Gardner's child, monument of Wm. Appleton, and the splendid mauso-
leum of two fronts to Dr. Binney ; Armstrong, Shattuck's Boy ; pass
into Fir Avenue at the west, and view the Magoun monument of Moth-
er and daughter ; then turn to the south, where are the monuments to
Torrey, Mrs. N. P. Willis, Bates, Lincoln, Pickens, and many others;
pass through Fir Avenue to the south, crossing Spruce Avenue, curv-
ing to the southeast, and then turn to the right hand into Walnut
Avenue, and at the right hand, are Elder, Pilgrim and Snowdrop
Paths, on a north-west line, and view the elegantly carved Temples
of Cotting, Miles, Bush, Foss, Penniman, Shattuck, Farrar, Wolcott,
Hartshorn and others: return to Walnut Avenue and pass through it,
curving to the south, and view the monuments to Hicks, Worcester,
Watson and others : then turn to the left into Mountain Avenue, north-
westerly, and ascend Mt. Auburn's highest mound, 125 feet above the
river Charles, from whence Boston, and the surrounding country maybe
seen : then descend Mt. Auburn on the south-east, through Hazel Path,
curving round to the north, and view the Fuller monument; then pass
on to Harvard Hill at the north-east ; here the eye will greet the mau-
soleums to Andrews, Kiikland, Ashmun, Hoffman, and officers of Har-
vard University, and also to some of the students : descend into Rose
Path, at the south-west, where are monuments of Scudder, and Davis,
encircling its base, to the eastward : then turn to the right hand into
Sweet Briar Path, and continue to its south-east termination, and there
is a mausoleum to Coffin ; then turn to the left hand into Chestnut Ave-
nue, and at its junction with Hawthorn path, is the Tremont Strangers
Tomb : continue north-west through Hawthorn path which leads to
Cedar Hill, where are the monuments to Hildreth, Appleton and others:
from thence southwest, round Cedar Hill, is Ivy Path, which curves
round to the north, and at the end of this branch, a little to the west.

is Consecration Dell, where are monuments to Stanton, Watts, Water-
son, Leverett, Dana, &c. leave Consecration Dell at its north-west
corner, and pass into Vine Path, crossing Moss Path by the monument
to Stearns, on to Central Square, where are monuments to Hannah
Adams, Murray, and others; at the north-west of Central Square is
Poplar Avenue curving to the east; and there may be seen mementos
to Warren Colburn, Sturgis, Choate, Munson, Mrs. Ellis and others;
then turn round to the left into the eastern line of Willow Avenue,
curving round into its western line, and there are obelisks or mausole-
ums to Mo Lellan, Williams, Buckingham, Randall, Chamberlain,
Thayer, Tuckerman, Mrs. Gannett, Lowell, Mason, Howard and others;
leaving Willow Avenue at its southwest corner, turn to the right through
Poplar Avenue into Alder Path, to the north ; and see a monument to
Wetraore, Greenleaf, and others ; pass into Narcissus Path northerly,
around Forest Pond and view the monuments to Story, Webster, Ox-
nard. Rich, Durgin, Faxon, Winchester and others : at the north curve
of Forest Pond is Catalpa Path, on an east line to Indian Ridge Path,
where those to Brimmer, Bond, Seaver, Greenleaf, Patterson, Wads-
worth, Francis, Fearing, West, To my Mary, Stackpole, and others are
erected : then return to Catalpa Path west, to Linden Path, near to
BeachAvenue, where are monuments to Tappan, Thaxter, Raymond
and others ; pass through Beach Avenue to the south, where are the
monuments of Bigelow, Stone, Stevens, Coolidge. Putnam, &c., then
turn round to the right hand into Central Avenue, where are the monu-
ments of Harnden, Gibbs, Phelps, Peck. Burges, Abbe, Clary, and the
sculptured watch dog of Perkins : turn to the left hand into Cypress
Avenue, where the Bible monument of Gray may be seen on Hibiscus
Path, and a little south, is the Cogswell monument ; then turn to the
left, easterly, and near the centre of Central Avenue, the monuments
of Hevvins, Tisdale, Buckminster, Cleveland, Lawrence, Herwig, and
others ; continue through Cypress Avenue, curving to the south, and
there is the Public lot, with numerous shafts and mementos to friends,
with a singular horrizontal slab to the memory of M. W. B., and a
little north-west of the Public lot, on Eglantine Path, is the sculptured
figure of Christ, blessing little children : a little to the East of that is the
Ford Monument, Faith with the Cross, and the Fuller monument.
Return through the south part of Cypress Avenue, where is a monu-
ment to Samuel Story, Jr., on Lupine Path; then turn round to the left,
into Cedar Avenue, leading to the north, where are monuments to
Gridley, Hayward, Benjamin, and others ; continue to the right hand
through part of Cypress Avenue to Central Avenue, passing the statue
of Bowditch, and view the monument to the officers lost in the explor-
ing expedition and others, after which, a return to the gate on the
north, may be made direc'

THIS LITTLE MANUAL

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

JACOB BIGELOW, M. D.,

President of the Mount Auburn Cemetery Institution ;

For having been the first suggester of an Amer-
ican Garden Cemetery, and as one of the most eminent
promoters of that now celebrated establishment , and for
twenty-two years unremitted exertions in advancing it
to its present state of usefulness and beauty.

That his life may be long preserved to his fellow
citizens, and for himself to witness his fondest wishes
realizedj in the perfection of his plans for that cherished
elysium, is the hope of

his obliged friend

and very humble servant,

June, 1851. Nathaniel dearborn.

OUNT AUBURN CHAPEL,

Erected 1847.

ODE ON
MOUNT AUBURN CHAPEL AND CEMETERY,

By Nathaniel Dearborn.

This mystic Fane in Auburn's sculptured grounds,
Prefers to Heaven the griefs and suppliant sounds,

In aid of our infirmity ;
The chastened heart to save, the mourner cheer,
The message-promise from Jehovah hear

Of bliss through an eternity;
And here the bosomed relic of a friend,
Returns to what it was, and is, an end

To re-produce frail, dying man;
The soul is called to Jesus' heavenly shrine,
Beatic essence of the mind divine.

Communing with the great I AM.

DEARBORN'S GUIDE

MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY,

7lh EDITION, AVITH SEVENTY ENGRAVINGS.
BY NATHANIEL DEARBORN.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852,

BY NATHANIEL DEARBORN,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

MEMBERS OF THE CORPORATION.

Jacob Bigelow, President. George William Bond, Treasurer, Office 127 Milk Si.
Henry M. Parker, Secretary, Office 46 Washington Street.

TRUSTEES.
Jacob Bigelow, 27 Summer Street. | Benjamin A. GorLr, 20 Union Wharf.

Geo. W. Crockett, 99 State St. | Mace Tisdale, 5 Chatham Row,

Charles P. Curtis, 1G Court Street. I Isaac Parker, 2 & 4 Pearl Street.
C. C. LiTLLE, 112 Washington St. | James Read, 29 Milk St.

Geo. H. Kuhn, 40 State St. |

COMMITTEE ON LOTS.
Jacob Bigelow, Charles P. Curtis, Isaac Parker.
RuFUs Howe, Superintendent.

STRANGERS can receive, on application to any Trustee, or to the Secretary a permit
to enter the Cemetery with a Carriage, any day, except Sundays and Holydays.

MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, CAMBRIDGE.
4 1-2 miles west from Boston — 1 1-4 miles west of Harvard University.

This spot of land was formerly called stone's woods : its uncommonly
gorgeous and beautifully varied scenery; its full grown umbrageous
trees of many tribes, alluring numbers to its silent and peaceful shades,
its name was changed by common consent to that of ''sweet auburn;"
Under this appropriate appellation, it became more eminently a
favorite gTOve for the lovers of nature, to enjoy the pleasing and healthy
color and balmy atmosphere of green trees, shrubbery, grassy hills,
solitary grottos, yet enlivened with music from the feathered songsters
throughout this best elysium of nature's work.

The original lot comprised an area of 72 acres ; but by an after purchase
of 38)'3 acres, it now measures 110)^ in all : the whole obtained at a
cost of S9,766.89 : The Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery contem-
plate adding about 100 acres of adjoining land to the present grounds
of that cemetery, during the present season. The '' horticultural so-
ciety OF MASSACHUSETTS " wcre nobly impressed with the importance
of an extensive rural cemetery for the burial of the dead, and after the
above named purchases by them, they transferred the whole grounds to
a society of gentleraen,who had labored for the accomplishment of this
object, ever since the year 1825, for the sum of $4,222,42; thus making
a generous gift of $5,544,47.

This latter society was Incorporated, as "the propriktors of mount
AUBURN CEMETERY," Juiie 23, 1831, and the ground consecrated on the
24th of Sept., in that year : the first meeting for agitating this subject,
was held in 1825, at the house of Dr. Jacob Bigelow, the present Pres-
ident of the society; with the aid of the late George Bond, Wm. Sturgis,
the late Hon. John Lowell, the late Samuel P. Gardiner, Thomas VV.
Ward, Nathan Hale, and John Tappan ; who realized their fondest hopes
in founding the first, by date ; the most enobling, and most beautiful
garden cemetery in this extensive country ; to become in time a paradise
of sculptuary, of monuments and mausoleums, interspersed amid nature's
lovliest productions; the capaciousness of the ground will permit 20.000
lots of 300 superficial square feet, each of which is offered at 100 dollars
if purchased from any of those surveyed and located for the sale list ; but
if a lot be preferred in any part of the grounds not thus prepared, an
additional sum will be required, say 10 dollars or more; around these lots
the Avenues for carriages, 20 feet wide, and Paths for pedestrians, 6 feet
wide, are laid out circuitousl}-, to an extent, if measured in one straight
line, would span a distance of 30 miles : about 2000 Lots have been
disposed of, and about 350 Monuments, Shafts, Cenotaphs, Obelisks,
and Slabs, have been raised to hallow and adorn the spot. All monies
received from the sale of Lots or from any other source_, is expended in
ornamenting and improving this Garden Cemetery. During the two first
years of its consecration, upwards of 30,000 dollars were expended in
grading the roads, building a house, &c. for the Superintendent, fencing,
&o. The front entrance Gate from Cambridge road, is a design from an
Egj'ptian model, and is masterly chiseled in Granite, at a cost of about
$10,000 ; and the cast iron picketed fence on that whole front line was
erected at a cost of about $15,000 : — a splendid Chapel was completed
within its grounds in 1848, at a cost of about §25,000. The highest
mound in the Cemetery is called Mt. Auburn^ and is 125 feet above
Charles River, which meanders by the grounds on its southern border :
On the summit of this elevation a Tower has been erected, of suffi-
cient height to be seen above the surrounding trees, to subserve
the triple purpose of a landmark, — to idenfify the spot, and for an
Observatory, commanding an uninterrupted view of the surrounding
landscape " of cities, towns, hills, farms, rivers, Massachusetts Bay,
with its many Islands and shipping; the lantern or cupola of this Tower,
is at least 185 feet above the river Charles.

Mr. RUFUS HOWE,

The Superintendent of Mount Auburn, resides within its borders; and
conducts the affairs of the internal management of the Cemetery, in a
very eminently judicious manner : any one applying to him for informa-
tion concerning the lots on sale, for burials, or any other item appertain-

ing to those grounds, will receive every polite attention ; a direct appli-
cation to him is therefore most advisable, to save trouble and time.

By a reference to the Map of Mt. Auburn, which is on the last page
of this pamphlet, the Avenues and Paths exhibit an universal curvature:
their lines are " not straight, but crooked ;" and if one is not familiar
with their windings, a visit there may be attended with much fatigue
and exhaustion ; and that too, without the compensating gratification of
seeing the beautiful and grand mementos of the living to the dead ; to
aid the visitor to thread this mazy labyrinth, with a tolerable understand-
ing, attended too with a satisfactory result, a direct guide through
MOUNT AUBURN, pausing at the various clusters of Monuments and Shafts,
by the most convenient route, is to be found on first page ; the seventy
engraved representations of them, are placed in the same progressive
rotation; so, that, as one advances in the circuit laid down, by the printed
guide, the monuments, engraved, will be met with in their designated
accompanying position : — thus ; the Sarcophagus of the late Dr. Spurz-
heim is the first one approached, and that is the first engraving and the
first one named in the printed Guide : the monument of Story, being
nearly the last one on passing through the Cemetery, by the printed
Guide, the engraving of it is placed last in this work.

The order oi the consecration of Mount Auburn, was an address from
the late Hon. Judge Story, who was then President of the Institution ;
prayers from Dr. Ware and Rev. John Pierpont, with the foUo^ving
impressive hymn from the pen of the latter.

HYMN.

To thee, O God, in humble trust,
Our hearts their cheerful incense burn,

For this thy word, "Thou art of dust,"
And unto dnstshalt thou return.

And what were life, life's work all done,
The hopes, joys, loves, that cling to clay,

All, all, departed, one by one,
And yet life's load borne on for aye !

Deca}-! decay! 'tis stamped on all.

All bloom ni flower and flesh shall fade,

Ye whispering trees ^vhen ye shall fall.
Be our long sleep beneath your shade !

Here to thy bosom mother earth,

Take back in peace what thou hast given
And all that is of heavenly birth,
O God, in peace, recall to heaven.

HYMN.

Home of the coming dead !
The spot whereon we tread

Is hallowed ground :
Here earth, in sacred trust.
Shall hold their sleeping dust,
Until her bonds they burst,

And rise unbound.

Here shall the weary rest,
And souls, with woes oppress'd,

No more shall weep :
And youth and age shall come,
And beauty in her bloom.
And Manhood, to the tomb ;

Sweet be their sleep !

Around their lowly bed

Shall flowers their tVagrance shed,

And birds shall sing :
On every verdant mound
Love's offering shall be found,
And sighing trees around

Their shadows fling.

And there's a holier light !
Hope, with her taper bright,

On every tomb,
Points upward to the sky ,
There every tear is dry.
There is no mourner's sigh,

Nor death, nor gloom.

REGULATIONS CONCERNING VISITORS TO THE CEMETERY
AT MOUNT AUBURN.

The gates arc opened at sunrise and closed at sunset.

No money is to be paid to the gate keeper.

No persons are admitted on Su.vdays or Holydats, except Pbopriktobs and members
of their household, and persons accompanying them.

No refreslimsnts, and jio party carrying refresliments, will be admitted to come within the
grounds at Mount Auburn.

All persons who shall be found within the grounds making unseemly noises, or otherwise
conducting themselves unsuitably to the purposes to which the grounds are devoted, will be
required instantly to leave the grounds, and upon refusal, will be compelled to do so, and
will be prosecuted accordingly.

No vehicle is to be driven in the Cemetery at a rate faster than a walk.

No horse is to be left unfastened, without a keeper.

No horse is to be fiisiened, except at the posts provided for this purpose.

All persons are prohibited from gathering any flowers, EiTHEK wild or cultivated, or
breaking any tree, shrub, or plant.

Any person who shall be found in possession of flowers or shrubs, while in the grounds
or before leaving them, will be deemed to have tortiously taken them in the grounds, and
will be prosecuted accordingly. N. B. Persons carrying flowers into the Cemetery, to be
placed on any lot or grave, as offerings or memorials, are requested to notify the Gatekeeper
as they pass in ; in every other case, flowers brought to the Cemetery 7nust be left without
the gate.

All persons are prohibited from writing upon, defacing and injuring any monument, fence
or other structure, in or belonging to the Cemetery.

All persons are prohibited from discharging firearms in the Cemetery.

The Superintendent of the grounds, the Gatekeeper, and any other person acting under
them, shall have a right to require his or her name from any person other than a proprietor,
or a member of his family, who shall visit the grounds, and upon his or her refusal, or giving
a false name, to exclude them from the grounds.

The Superintendent, the Gatekeeper, and all other persons acting under them, shall have
full authority to carry these regulations into effect, and shall give notice of any violations
thereof, to the Trustees.

[Er*The Superintendent has the care of the Cemetery, and is authorized to remove all
those who violate these regulations or commit tresspasses. Tresspassers are also liable to
be fined Fifty Dollars.

Q3="TwE.\TY Dollars reward is offered to any person who shall give information to
the Trustees, which shall lead to the conviction of the offender, of any tresspass done by
taking or plucking any flowers, shrubs, or trees, within the grounds, or of otherwise injuring
the grounds, or of any other offence against the laws and regulations, provided for the pro-
tection of the Cemetery, and the monuments and erections therein.

The Secretary will issue to the proprietors each one Ticket of Admission into the
Cemetery with a vehicle ; the loan of the Ticket involves a forfeiture of this privilege. In
case of a loss of the Ticket, the Proprietor is requested to apply to the Secretary, from
whom a new one can be obtained. This is necessary, as the Gatekeeper's orders are to
admit no proprietor without a ticket.

Any person who has a relative interred in the Public Lot at the Cemetery, may, on
application to any Trustee or to the Secretary, receive a special pass into the Cemetery
on Sundat/s.

Repairs of Monuments and Lots. Any owner of a Lot wishing to have it kept in
perpetual repair, by depositing funds with the Trustees for that purpose, will receive from
them a Deed of Trust for the funds and assume the duties and responsibilities. The interest
on 300 dollars will perpetually keep in repair a lot of 300 feet, with its monument, shrub-
bery and soil ; the interest on 500 dollars is required for a similar sized lot if with a Tomb;
if 100 dollars are deposited, its interest money will be expended for repairs as far as that
will accomplish the purpose.

CONDITIONS, LIMITATIONS AND PRIVILEGES TO WHICH EVERY LOT IS
SUBJECT BY THE DEED OF TILE CORPORATION, TO WIT:

First. The proprietor of the lot shall have a right to enclose the same with a wall or fence
not exceeding one foot in thickness, which may be placed on the adjoining land of the Cor-
poration exterior to the said lot.

Second. The said lot shall not be used for any other purpose than as a place of burial for
the dead ; and no trees within the lot or border shall be cut down or destroyed, without the
consent of the Trustees of the said Corporation.

Third. The proprietor of the said lot shall have the right to erect stones, monuments, or
sepulchral structures, and to cultivate trees, shrubs and plants in the same.

Fourth. The proprietor of the said lot shall erect, at his or her own expense, suitable land
marks of stone or iron, at the corners thereof, and shall also cause the number thereof to be
legibly and permanently marked on the premises. And if the proprietor shall omit for thirty
days after notice, to erect such land marks and mark the number, the Trustees shall have
authority to cause the same to be done at the expense of said proprietor.

Fifth. If the laud marks and boundaries of the said lot shall be effaced, so that the said
lot cannot with reasonable diligence be found and identified, the said Trustees shall set oQ
to the said grantee, his or her heirs or assigns, a lot in lieu thereof, in such part of the cem-
etery, as they see fit, and the lot hereby granted shall in such case revert to the Corporation.

Sixth. If any trees or shrubs situated in said lot, shall by means of their roots, branches,
or otherwise, become detrimental to the adjacent lots or avenues, or dangerous or inconve-
nient to passengers, it shall be the duly of the said Trustees for the time being, and they
shall have the right, to enter into the said lot, and remove the said trees and shrubs, or such
parts thereof as are thus detrimental, dangerous or inconvenient.

Seventh. If any monument or efiigy, or any structure whatever, or any inscription be
placed in or upon the said lot, which shall be determined by the major part of the said
Trustees for the time being, to be offensive or improper, the said Trustees, or the major
part of them, shall have the right, and it shall be their duty to enter upon said lot, and re-
move the said offensive or improper object or objects.

Eighth. No fence shall at any time be placed or erected in or around any lot, the mat-
rials and design of which shall not first have been approved by the trustees or a committee
of them.

Ninth. No tomb shall be constructed vv'ithin the bounds of the Cemetery except in or upon
lots situated in such parts of the grounds as shall be designated by the Trustees for that
purpose ; and no proprietor shall suffer the remains of any person to be deposited in a tomb
so authorized, for hire.

Tenth. The said lot shall be holden subject to the provisions contained in an act of the
General Court, dated March 31, 1S35, and entitled, " An Act to incorporate the Proprietors
of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn."

Note. — The .society request that all_ railings or inclosures of lots may be light, neat and
symmetrical, — that all stones erected in memory of the dead may be marble or granite, —
and that no slabs be placed in the Cemetery. Fences composed in whole or in part of wood
are prohibited.

"There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes

Can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise ;

We may find it where a hedgerow showers its blossoms o'er our way

Or a cottage-window sparkles forth in the last red light of day.

Yes ! beauty dwells in all our paths — but sorrow too is there ;

How oft some cloud within us dims the bright, still summer air!

When we carry our sick hearts abroad amidst the joyous things

That through the leafy places glance, on many colored wings.

With shadows from the past, ■we fill the happy woodland shades,

And a mournful memory of the dead is with us in the slades ;

And our dream-like fancies lend the wind an echo's plaintive tone,

Of voices, and of melodies, and of silvery laughter gone.

They hold us from the woodlark's haunts, and the violet-dingles back,

And from the lovely sounds and gleams in the shining river's track j

They bar us from our heritage of spring-time hope and mirth,

And weigh our burdened spirits down with the cumbering dust of earth,"

SITUATION OF THE AVENUES OR CARRIAGE ROADS. 20 FEET WIDE

Beach, from the east side of Central, southerly, to Poplar Avenue.
CeJar, from the north line of Cypress, southerly, to 'Walnut Avenue.
Central, fronting the gate, south, to Walnut Avenue.
Cliapel, southwest, from Central to Pine Avenue.
Chestnut, from Poplar, southerly, to Mountain Avenue.
Citron, a short avenue, southeasterly, from Oak to .Magnolia Avenue.
Cypress, from Central, westerly, curving southerly, to Walnut Avenue.
Elm, westerly, from Pine Avenue, curving round easterly, to the same.
Fir. from the second branch of Elm Ave., southerly, curving easterly to Walnut Av.
Garden, east from the gale, curving to the south, and then to the east again to Maple Av.
Larch, southeast from Poplar Avenue, curving northeast, to Maple Avenue.
Laurel, from AValnut Avenue, northerly, and around Laurel hill.
Lime, from Maple, curving round at Aloe path, again into Maple Avenue.
Locust, from Beach Avenue, southwesterly to Poplar Avenue.
Magnolia, at the southeast of Mountain, to Maple Avenue, curving northerly.
Maple, from the east end of Garden Avenue, southerly, to Magnolia Avenue.
Mountain, all round Mt. Auburn Hill, to Magnolia Avenue, easterly.
Oak, from Willow Aveime, easterly, curving south to Magnolia Avenue.
Pine, from Elm Avenue, southerly, curving to the southeast, into Cypress Avenue,
Poplar, from the northeast of Central square, curving southeast to Larch Avenue.
Spruce, from Elm Av. southerly, curving through thewhole western extent of the Cem.
Walnut, west of Central Sq. curving S. westerly, and then to the south into Moun. Av.
Willow, with two branches, the 1st branch from Poplar Av. northeasterly, to Narcissus
Path, then curving easterly for the 2d branch, to the south, to Larch Avenue.

SITUATION OF THE FOOT PATHS. 6 FEET WIDE.

Ailanthus, it ha« two openings from Central Avenue, and two also from Cedar Avenue.

connecting with both Avenues.
Alder, from Poplar Avenue, northwest, round southwest to Locust Avenue.
Almond, from Indian Ridge Path, southwesterly, curving into it agaiji at the southeast.
Aloe, " " " " easterly, into Lime Avenue.

Altrea, from Fir Avenue, southerly, to Spruce Avenue.
Amaranth, from Rose Path, encircling Harvard Hill.

Anemone, from Orange Path, near AV'alnut Avenue, westerly, to Spruce Avenue.
Arethusa, from Walnut Avenue, westerly, to Trefoil Path.
Asclepias, from Spruce Avenue, westerly, to Fir Avenue.
Aslor, from Vine Path, southerly, and curving easterly to Ivy Path.
Azalea, southerly from Spruce Avenue, and curving easterly to the same Avenue.
Bellwort, from Orange Path, westerly, to Spruce Avenue.
Calla, from Fir Avenue, southwest, to Pilgrim Path.
Catalpa, from Indian Ridge Path, southerly, curving easterly to the same.
Clematis, from Magnolia Avenue, southeast, curving northerly , to the same avenue.
Columbine, from Spruce Avenue, westerly, to Fir Avenue.
Cowslip, from Walnut Avenue southwesterly, to Spruce Avenue.
Crocus, from Fir Avenue, westerly, curving south, to Spruce Avenue.
Dell, from Ivy Path, southwest, around Consecration Dell, and from thence, through eilhei'

of the two southeastern limbs of Dell Path, to Ivy Path again.
Elder, from Walnut Avenue, northwest, to Spruce Avenue.

Eglantine, from Spruce Avenue, southeasterly, winding into Fir Avenue southerly.
Fern, from Walnut Avenue, southeast, to Mountain Avenue.

Gentian, from Pine Avenue, westwardly, curving southeasterly, into Cypress Avenue.
Geranium, from Beech Avenue, southerly, curving into Central Avenue westerly,

ard Beech Avenue, easterly.^

Green Brier, from Pine Avenue, westerly, to Mistletoe Path.

Harebell, from Walnut Avenue, southerly, to Trefoil Path, westerly.

Hawthorn, from Woodbine Path, and encircles Juniper Hill.

Hazel, from Mountain Avenue, southeasterly, to Rose Path, northerly.

Heath, from Spruce Avenue, westerly to Fir Avenue.

Heliotrope, from Spruce Avenue, westerly, to Fir Avenue.

Hemlock, from Poplar Avenue, southwesterly, to Ivy Path.

Hibiscus, from Cypress Avenue, curving into the same Avenue agam.

Honeysuckle, from Green Brier Path, southerly, curvmg easterly, into Fir Avenue.

Holly, from Poplar Avenue, south, curving southerly, to Ivy Path.

Hyacinth, from Chapel Avenue, southerly, to Cypress Avenue.

Indian Ridge, from Central Avenue, southeasterly, to Larch and Maple Avenues.

Iris, near Central Square, from Moss to Dell Path, southeasterly.

Ivy, from Central Square, southerly, curving round northeasterly, into AVoodbine Path.

Jasmine, from Chestnut Avenue, ^vesterly, curving south to Hawthorn Path.

Lilac, from the northeast curve of Willow Avenue, northerly, to Indian Ridge Path.

Lily, from Poplar Avenue, southerly, to AVoodbine Path, at Cedar Hill.

Linden, from Beech Avenue, easterly, curving to the south, into Beech Avenue again.

Lotus, from Magnolia Avenue, southerly, curving northerly, to the same Avenue.

Lupine, from Cypress Avenue, northwest, to Spruce Avenue.

Mayflower, from the gate, southeasterly, by the first segment of Garden Pond, to Gar. Av.

Mimosa, from Spruce Avenue, westerly, to Fir Avenue.

Mistletoe, from the westerly curve of Elm Avenue, southeasterly, and curving easterly,

into Fir Avenue.
Moss, from Central Square, southwest, curving southwardly to Laurel Avenue.
Myrtle, southerly, from Chestnut Avenue, curving westerly, to Rose Path.
Narcissus Path is all around Forest Pond.

Oleander, from Hose Path, easterly, curving southwesterly, to Myrtle Path.
Olive, south from Juniper Hill, curving w^esterly, into Myrtle Path.
Orange, from Walnut Avenue, southerly, curving to the same Avenue.
Orchis, westerly, from Walnut Avenue, to Tulip Path.

Osier, from the northeast curve of Willow Avenue, east, to Indian Ridge Path.
Petunia, from Larch Avenue, southeasterly, into Oak Avenue.
Pilgrim, from Walnut Avenue, curving southerly, into Snowdrop Path.
Primrose, from Central Avenue, southeasterly, around the south side of Garden Pond.
Pyrola, from Orange Path, westerly, to Spruce Avenue.
Rhodora, from Oak Avenue, southwesterly, into Larch Avenue.
Rbse, encircles the whole base of Harvard Hill.

Rosemary, from Jasmine to Hawthorn Path, circling round into, and out of Temple Hill.
Sedge, easterly from Fir Avenue, curving northerly, to Heath Path.
Sorrel, from Spruce Avenue, westerly, curving southwest, to Fir Avenue.
Snowberry, west of the gate, from Pine Avenue, southeasterly, to Central Avenue.
Snowdrop, westerly from Walnut Avenue, to Pilgrim Path.
Spirrea, from Fir Avenue, southwesterly, to Mistletoe Path.

Sumac, southerly, from Moss, near Central Square, to Violet Path and Laurel Av.
Sweet Brier, from the south of Juniper Hill, southeasterly, to Chestnut Avenue.
Thistle, southeast from Walnut Avenue, curving westerly, to Spruce Avenue.
Trefoil, southwesterly, from Walnut Avenue, to Spruce Avenue.
Tulip, westerly, " " « to Trefoil Path.

Verbena, southeasterly, from Spruce Avenue, to Fir Avenue. ,

Vine, (near Consecration Dell,) from Moss Path, near Central Square, to Iris Path.
Violet, easterly, from Walnut Avenue, curving northerly, to Ivy Path.
Woodbine, encircles the whole base of Cedar Hill.
Yarrow, of two parts, westerly, from Pine Av. to Fir, curving round to Pine Av. again.

CASPER SPURZHEIM, BORN DEC. 31, 1775. LOT 181.

Gasper Spurzheim, Phrenological demonstrator, died in Boston, Nov.
10, 1832, a;^ed 57. The Government of Cambridge College shewed
every mark of respect for the deceased.

HON. NATHANIEL Eo^vDITc^, L I.. D. Died INIarch 16, 1838, aged 65 ys.

This is a Statue from Metalic castings; its weight is about 2500 lbs.
it is esteemed a capital likeness of the New England Philosopher.

ROBERT G. SHAW. LOT 85. PINE AVENUE.
" Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer :
Next day the fatal precedent will plead :
Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life.
Procrastination is the thief of time ;
Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves
The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
If not so frequent, would not this be strange ?
That 'tis so frequent, this is stranger still."

DR. FISHER. PINE, CORNER OE ELM AVENUE.

"There is a shore
Where storms are hushed — where tempests never rage ;
Where angry skies and blackening seas no more

With gusty strength iheir roaring warfare wage :
By them its peaceful margent shall be trod —
Their home be heaven, and iheir friend be God."

RICHARD HAt'GHTON. LOT 777. PIKE AVENUE.

"Ah I how unjust to Nature and himself
Is thoughtless, thankless, iuconsislent man!
Like ehiklrcii bahbling nonsense in llieir sports,
We censure Nature for a span too short ;
That span too short, M-e tax as tedious too;
Torture jnveiition, all expedients tire,
To lash the lingering moments into speed,
And whirl us (happy riddance) from ourselves."

REV. WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING, D.D. GREEN DRIER PATH.

" The sage, peer, potentate, king, conqueror !

Death humbles these ; more barbarous Life the man'!

Life is the triumph of our mouldering clay :

Death is the spirit infinite! divine !

Death has no dread but what frail Life imparls.

Nor Life true joy but what kind death improves.

No bliss has life to boast, till Dealh ran give

Far greater. Life's a debtor to the grave :

Dark lattice ! letting in eternal day."

ELISHA TURNER. LOT 714. YARROW PATH,

"O ye, whose hours in jocund train advance, [O, ye, while Fate delays th' impending' woe,
Whose spirits to the song of gladness dance. Be roused to thought, — anticipate the blow ;
Whose flowery plains in endless pomp survey, Lest like the lightning's glance, the sudden ill
Glittering iii beams of visionary day j [Flash to confoiuid. and penetrate to kill."

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LOT 681. DEXTER's SCULPTURE OF EMILY, ON YARROW PATH.

"Beware what earth calls happiness; beware
All joys but joys that never can expire.
Who builds on less than an immortal base,
Fondas he seems, condemns his joys to death."

JOHN H. GOSSLER. LOT 1129, TARROW PATH.

"Alas ! how vain
The wreath thai Fame would hind around our tomb —
The winds shall waste it, and tlie worms destroy ;
The fickle praise of far posterity,
Come, weigh it at the grave's brink, here with me,
If thou cans't weigh a dream."

S. P. ALLEN. SPRUCE AVENUE.

"In full content we sometimes nobly rest,

Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish.

As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise.

At thirty man suspects himself a fool ;

Knows il at forty, and reforms his plan ;

At fifty chides his infamous delay,

Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve ;

In all ihe magnanimity of thought

Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same."

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S. O. RICHAKDSOX S LOT, FIR AVENUE.

" 'While man is growing, life Is in decrease,
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb ;
Our birth is nothing but our death begun,
As tapers waste that instant they take fire."

s. Gardner's lot. dexter's sculpture of little frank.

Dcalli found strange beauty on that polished brow,
Ami dashed it out. There was a tint of rose
Ou cheek and lip. He touched llie veins with ice
And the rose faded. Forth from those blue eyes
There spake a wishful tenderness, a doubt
Whetht-r to grieve or sleep, which innocence
Alone may wear. With ruthless haste he bound
The silken fringes of those curtained lids
Forever. But there beamed a smile.
So fixed, so holy, from that cherub brow,
Death gazed, and left it there, lie durst not steal
The signet-ring of Heaven.

Mrs. L. H. Sigourney.

WM, appleton. lot 920. heliotrope path.

"If time past
And time possess'd both pain us, what can please?
That which the Deity to please ordain'd,
Time used. The man who consecrates liis hours
I5y vigorous effort and an honest aim,
At once he draws the sting of life and death ;
He walks with Nature, and her paths are peace."

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PARAN STEVENS. SEDGE PATH.

Eliza Jewett, wife of Paran Stevens, died March 4th, 1850.

" There is hushed on earth
A voice of gladness — there is veil'd a face
Whose parting leaves a dark and silent place

By the once joyous hearth;
A smile hath passed, which filled its home with light,
A soul whose beauty made that smile so bright."

RECEIVING TOMB. GREEN BRIAR PATH, LEADING FROM FIR AVENUE.

" The slumherer shall awake ; the unsealed eye
See its Redeemer; and although the worm
Destroy this body, yet the dust shall rise
To Immortality."

HEATH PATH, LOT 1390.

AMOS BINNET, M. D.

Died at Rome, Feb. 18, 1847, aged 41 years, and two smaller, but
beautiful monuments, inscribed to father— mother, the latter with a
rich boquet wreath on its top.

S. T. ARMSTRONG. SEDGE PATH.
"Celestial Happiness ! whene'er she sloops
To visit Earth, one shrine the goddess finds,
And one alone, to make her sweet amends
For absent Heaven — the bosom of a friend;
Where heart meets heart, reciprocally soft.
Each others pillow to repose divine.
Beware the counterfeit ; in passion's flame
Hearts melt, but melt like ice, soon harder froze.
True love strikes root in reason, passion's foe ;
Virtue alone cntcnder; us for life."

M. L. HALL. SNOW-DROP PATH.

" When yc believe
That the sepulchral keys are consigned
To that blest hand which once was deeply pierced
For man's offences, ye may calmly kneel
Amid the ruins of your lore, and gajr
* Thy will be done." "

ST. JOHN'8 lot. fib AVENUE, CORNER OF MISTLETOE PATH.

" Be death your theme in every place and hour.
Nor longer want ye, monumental sires,
A brother's Unnb to tell you you shall die."

SHATTUCK's son — FRANK CHESTER. SORREL PATH,

"Thou cam'sl — what pleasures new and bright

Thy coming gave:
Thou'rt gone — and every young delight —

Is laid in thy dark gravel
The sigh will rise, in manhood's spite —

The tears will roll ;
Grief round me draws her mental night—

And desolates my soul."

MAGOUN MONUMENT. GRIEF, FIR AVENUE.

"A Household's tomb : to Faith how dear 1
A part have gone ; part linger here ;
United all in love and hope,
Our household still!

Together we sliall sleep ;
Together may we rise ;
And sing our morning hymn,
Oue household siill !"

REV. CHARLES T. TORRET. JUNCTION OF FIR AND SPRUCE AV.

Copied from the monument.
Born at Scituate, Nov. 21, 1813; graduated at Yale College, August
1833; ordained at Providence, March, 1837; arrested at Baltimore,
June 24, 1844; died in the Penitentiary of that city, Alay 9, 1846.

Charles Turner Torrey was arrested for aiding- slaves to regain their liberty. For this
jmmane act he ■was indicted as a criminal, convicted by the Baltimore cily court, and
gentenced to the Penitentiary for six years. While on his death bed, he was refused a
pardon by the Governor of Maryland and died of consumption, after two years confinenieul,
a victim of his sufferinjrs.

Where now beneath his burthen.
The toiling- slave is driven,
AVhere now a tyrant's mockery
Is offered up to heaven,

There shall his praise be spoken,
Redeemed frotn fulselioort's ban,
AVhenlhe fetters shall be broken,
And the slave shall be a man.

■W. H. DELANO, W. F. ■\VHITNET, RICE. PINE AVENUE.

" Leaves have their time to fall.
And flowers to wither at the north winds'
breath,
And stars to set — but all
Thou hast all seasons for thine o-wn,
Death! "

" "We know when inoons shall wane.
When Summer birds from far sh.iU cross
the sea,
TVhen Autumn's hue shall tinge the golden
grain.
Bat who shall teach us when to look for
thee! "

JACOB F0S8. LOT 719. SNOWDROP PATH.

ON ITS FRONT,

Make us elcriial irulh's receive,
And practice all lliul we believe.

For moilcs of Faith, let graceless zealots fight,
Ilis can't be wrong,' whose life is in the right.

OS THK EASTERN SIDE,

God is Love.

Sacred to the memory of Meliilable II., wife of Jacob Foss,

who departed this life April 10. ISlC, aged 51 years.

Oo, live ! lor Heaven's eternal year is thine.
Go, and e.xalt thy ninrlal, to divine.

HON. TIMOTHY FARR.iR, L L. D. ELDER PATH.

For upwards of 40 years fiom 1775, he was Judge in the Supreme
and Common Pleas Courts of ihe Slate of N. Hampshiie, and was the
oldest Graduate of Harvard Collece, and the last of the ante-revolution'
ary Graduates, and the oldest deposited in Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
Born June 28, 1747, died February 21, 1849, aged 101 years, 7 months.

ZACHARIAH HICKS. LOT 168, WALNUT AVENUE.

"I sa\v an aged man upon his bier:

His hair was thin and while, and on his brow

A record of the cares of many a year ; —
Cares thai were ended and forgotten now :

And there was sadness round, and faces bow^ed,
And women's tears lell fast, and children wailed aloud.'

HENRY ANDREWS. LOT 939. AMARANTH PATH.

" Not lost, but gone before."
'•For scarce upon our infant eyes,

The sprinkled dew of baptism dries,
E'er the thick frost of manhood's care.
And death's strong icy seal is there."

JOHN THORNTON KIRKLAND, LL. D. HARVARD HILL.

John Thornton Kirklaud was President of Harvard University, from
1810, to 1828; which was a prosperous era for that institution: it was
crowded with stuilents, but his generosity kept him peuiiyless during the
whole term : he loved his mother; in his memorandum book, he wrote
"one misfortune befel me in my junior year, which this world can never
* repair; my mother, on 23d Jan. 1788, died: the highest pleasure I
'couldeverenjoy was that of pleasing her.'"' he died April 26, 1840, ^ 69.

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JOHN HOOKER ASHMUN. HARVARD HILI,, COI.LKOE LOT.

Deceased April 1st, 1833, aged 33 years,

'•Insiruclive cinMcm of t]iis morlal state !
Where scenes as various every lioiir arise
In swift succession, wliich the liand of Fate
Presents, then wliirls them from our wandering eyes.

Be taught, vain man, how fleetin'r all thy joys,
Thy boasted grandeur and ihv ifliitering store :
Death comes and all thy fancied bli.^s destroys,
Quick as a dream it fades and is no more.

Through earth's thronged visions while we toss forlorn,
Tis tumult all, and rage, and restless strife,
But these sliall vanish'like the dreams of morn
When death awakes us to iuiiuortal life."

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MONUMENT TO HOFFMAN. COLLEGE LOT.

"In memory of a beloved and only son, Frederick William, son of
David and Mary Hoffman, of Baltimore, Maryland. Accompanied by
his parents for Italy, he died at Lyons, France, on the 30ih of November,
1833, aged 17 years."

" Mow mortals dream of things impossible,
Ol' joys perpetual, in perpetual change 1
Wliere now my frenzy's pompous furniture ?
The cobweb'cl cottage, and its ragged wall
Of mouldering mud, is royalty to me ;
The spider's most attenuated thread
Is cord, is cable to man's len<ler tie
Oil earthly bliss: it breaks at every breeze."

GEORGE \V. COFFIN.

CHESTNUT AVENUE.

" Wisdom though richer than Peruvian mines,
And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive,
What is she but the means of happiness ?
That UMoblain'd, than Folly more a fool ;
A melancholy fool, without her bells.
Friendship, the means of wisdom, richly gives
The precious end, which makes our wisdom wise."

TREMONT OR STRANGERS' TOMB. LOT 324, CHESTNUT AVENUE.

Ovnied by the Proprietors of the Tremonl House, Boston; built in
1833, of a pentagonal form, one side being occupied by the descending
entrance steps, and on each of the olher four sides, are three rows ot
horizontal cells, having three cells each, making 36 m all : if the re-
mains are permanently deposited, the cell is closed wilh a marble tab-
let, bearing the name of the deceased, &c.

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 came."

SAMUEL APPLETON. LOT 411, CEDAR HILL.

" Is it in the flight of human years
To 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 alarmed
At aught this seene can threaten or indulge,—
Resembles ocean into tempest wrought.
To waft a feather or to drown a fly."

MACE TISDALE AND S. K. HEWINS.

" And IS this all — this mournful doom?
Beams no glad light beyond ihe tomb?
Mark how you clouds in darkness ride ;
They do not quench the orb ihcy hide ;
Still there it wheels— the tempest o'er

In a bright sky to burn once more ;
So, far above the clouds of tirne,
Faith can behold a world subliire —
There when I he storms of life are past,
The light beyond, shall break at last."

STANTON, BLAKE AND HALLET, JUNCTION OF IVY AND
ASTER PATHS. LOT 407.

" The boast of heralilry, the pomp of power,

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Await alike th' inevitable hour:— ^

And paths of glory lead l)ut to the grave.
Can storied urn or animated bast

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can Honor's voice provoke the sjlenl dust.

Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of dedth ? "

FREDERICK P. LEVERETT. LOT 54, VINE PATH.

His hope we trust teas in Christ.

"The distinguished reputation of a scholar, the exalted integrity of a
man, the noble qualities which grace a husband, father, son, brother;
friend, as they were his, won the praise and love of every heart : so
are they his just memorial.

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A. STEARNS. LOT 646. MOSS PATH. MON. TO SAM'l H. STEARNS.

"Ay, freely halh the tear been given — and freely hath gone forth

The sigh of grief, that one like thee should pass away from earth ;
But those who mourn thee, mourn thee not like those to whom is given

No soothing hope, no blissful ihoughls of parted friends in Heaven:
They feel that thou wast summoned to the Christian's high reward, —
The everlasting joys of those whose trust is in the Lord."

HANNAH ADAMS. LOT 180, CENTRAL SQUARE.

Historian of the Jews, &c. Deceased, Dec. 15, 1831, Aged 76,
the first burial in Mt. Auburn.

"Hear, ye fair daughters of this happy land I

Whose radient eyes the vanquished world command, *

Virtue is beauty; but when charms of mind

With elegance of outward form are joined ;

When youth makes such bright objects still more bright,

And fortune sets them in the strongest light,

'Tis all of heaven that we below may view

And all but adoration is your due."

KEV. JOHN MURRAY. LOT 587. MOSH PATH.

"The Soul! — llie Soul I with its eye of fire,

Thus, thus shall it soar when its foes expire ;

It shall spread its wings o'er the ills thai pained,
The evils that shadowed, the sins that stained,

It shall dwell where no rushing^ cloud hath sway
And the pageants of earth shall have melted away.

WARREN COLBURN, DIED 1833. SB 40 TEARS.
LOT 42y. LOCUST AVENUE.

Cherished in classic lore ! Though short thy date ,

"Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind matures.

That life is long wiiich answers life's great end.

The lime that l)ear.s notVuit, deserves no name :

The man of wisdom is the man of years :

In hoary youth Aletlmsalems may die

Then how misdated on some flattering tombs ! "

CHARLES CHOATE. LOT 42, POPLAR AVENGE.

" Failh l)uilds a brUlire from tliis worlil lo tlie next,
O'er Deatli's d;irk gulf, ami all ils horrors hides :
Praise, ihe sweet exhalation ol' oiir joy,
That joy exalts, and makes it sweeler still :
Prayer ardeiii. opens IJeaveii, lets down a stream
Olg^lory on the consecrated hour
Of man in audience wiili the Deity?
AVho wnrshins the grea.1 God, thai instant joins
The first in Heaven."

HENRY BLAKE MC CLELLAN. DECEASED 1833, 36. 22.
LOT 123, POPLAR AVENUE.

" We laiely mused beside thy peaceful grave,

In Auburn's sweet and consecrated shades;

'Twas Autumn, and a mellow sunset cast

Ils golden smile through variegated woods,

And sdeiice waved her Iranqnillizing wing.

There rose Ihe beech-tree in its dying pomp,

The maple and the sumac clad in gold,

The sycamore in princely garments drest,

And the pale silvery birch, kissed by the glowing west."

ISAAC WILLIAMS. LOT 142, WILLOW AVENUE.

" The bell strikes oue. We lake no note of lime

Bu; from its loss: logive it then a tonijuo

Is wise in man. — If heard aright,

It is the knell of our departed hours.

Wliere are tliey ? With the years beyond the flood;

It is the signal that demands despatch :

How much is to be done ! my hopes and fears

Look down— on what ? A fathomless abyss.

A dread eternity! how surely mine!

And can eternity belong to me,

Poor pensioner on the boujuies o( an hour ? "

EPWIN BUCKINGHAM, DIED 1833, 86. 23 YEARS.
LOT 134. WILLOW AVENUE.

"Rest, Loved One, rest — beneath the billow's swell,
AVhere tongue ne'er spoke, where sunlight never fell ;
Rest — till the God who gave thee to the deep,
Rouse thee, triumphant, from the long, long sleep.
And you, whose hearts are bleeding, who deplore
That ye must see your Edwin's face no more,
AVeep — lie was worthy of the purest grief;
Weep— in .such .sorrow ye shall find relief;
While o'er his doom, the bitter tear ye shed,
Memory shall trace the virtues of the dead ;
These cannot die ! for you, for him, they bloom.
And scatter fragrance round his ocean-tomb."

REV. JOSEPH TUCKERMAN. LOT 222. OAK AVENUE.

Copied from the monument.

"For twent3'-five years a faithful minisler of Jesus Christ in the vil-
lage of Chelsea, and for fourteen years a devoted missionary to the
suffering and neglected of the city of Boston. His best monument is the
ministry at large ; his appropriate title, the Friend of the poor."

3d compartment — "Born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 18, 1778; Died in
Cuba, W. I., April 20, 1840."

4th side — " This monument is erected by friends to whom his mem-
ory is dear for the services he rendered, and the impulse he gave to the
cause of Christian Philanthropy.

THOMAS WETMORE. LOT 581, ALDER PATH.

" O Contemplation ! I do love

To indulge Ihy grateful musings : AVhy along

The dusty track of commerce should I toil,

When with an easy competence, content,

I can alone be hajipy, — and loose the wings of Fancy ?

And to be happy here, is man's chief end ;

Anil to be happy, he must fain be good 1 "

GARDNER CREENLEAF's LOT NO. 74, ALDER PATH.

"The dead, the much-loved dead!

Who doth not yearn to know
The secret of their dwellinfr place,

And to what land they go !
Wlial heart but asks with ceaseless tone
For «oine sure knowledge of its own .'"

"Ye are not dead !o us ;

But as bright siars unseen,
We hold that ye are ever near.

Though death intrudes between,
I<ike some thin cloud, that veds from sight
The countless spangles of the iiighl."

HON. JOSEPH STORY, L L. D. LOT 313, NARCISSUS PATH.

" Death ! great proprietor of all ! 'lis thine

To cast 0111 empire, and to quench the stars ;

The sun by thy permission, brilliant shines,

But one day thou shall pluck him from his sphere,

And in this mighty plunder, was thy inark on me,

Insatiate archer 1 once could nut suffice.

Thy shafts flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain."

JOHN W. WEBSTER. LOT 361, NARCISSUS PATH.

" Henceforth I learn, ihat to obey is best,

And love with fear the only God ; to walk

As ia his presence ; ever to observe

His providence ; and on him sole depend,

Merciful o'er all his works, with good

Still overcoming' evil, and by small

Accomplishing great things by things deemed weak.

Subverting w'orldly strong, and worldly wise,

By simply meek ; that suffering for truth's sake

Is fortitude to highest victory,

And to the faithful, death the gate of life I"

HENRY OXNARD. LOT 364. NARCISSUS PATH.

" Celestial Happiness! w^hene'er she stoops
To visit Earth, one shrine the goddess finds,
And one alone, to make her sweet amends
For absent Heaven — the bosom of a friend ;
Where heart meets heart, reciprocally soft,
Each other's pillow to repose divine."

CLEMENT DURGIN. I.OT 433. NARCISSUS PATH.

"Clement Durgin, Associate principal of Chauncy Hall School, Boston,
born Sept. 29, 1802, died Sept. 30, 1833 : a student and lover of nature, ia
her wonders, he saw and acknowledged and through them adored her
benificent Author: his life was a beautiful illustration of his philosophy
— his death, of the triumph of his faith : his pupils have reared this
mouument as an imperfect memorial of their great affection and respect."

NATHANIEL FAXON. LOT 384 NARCISSUS PATH

"There I placed
A frail memorial, — ihal when again
I should revisit it, the thought might come
Of the dull tide of life, and that yure spring
Which he who drinks of, never shall thirst more."

TOMB OF WM. P. WINCHESTER. LOT 380, NARCISSUS PATH.
Arthur Gilman, Arcliilect.

MARTIN BRIMMER. LOT 3!M. INDIAN RIDGE PATH.

"The departed ! the departed!

They visit us in dreams,
And they glide above our memories,

Like shadows over streams ;
But where the cheerful lights of liome

In constant lustre burn,
The departed I the departed!

Can never more return !

Thesrood. the brave, the beautiful!

How dreamless is their sleep,
Where rolls the dirge-iike music

Of the ever-tossing deep : —
Or where tlie hurrying night winds

Pale winter robes have spread,
Above the narrow palaces.

In the cities of the dead!"

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GEORG£ BOKD. LOT 156, INDIAN RIDGE PATH.

"Lost Friend, I shrink to say, so frail are we —
So like the brief ephemeron that wheels
Its momoutary rouiul, ^ve scarce can weep
Our own bereavements, ere we haste to share
The clay with those we mourn."

BENJAMIN SEAVER, LOT 158, INDIAN RIDGE PATH.

"I looked on manhood's towering form

Like some tall Oak when tempests blow,
That scorns the fnry of the storm

And strongly strikes its roots below :
Again I looked— with idjot cower
His vacant eye's unmeaning ray,
Told how the mind of godlike power
Passeth away."

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SAMUEL GREENLEAF. LOT 409, INDIAN RIDGE PATH.

" Angel of dealli ! did no presaging sign

Announce thy coming, and thy way prepare ?

No warning voice, no hiirbinger was ihine —

Danger and fear seemed past — hui thou wer't there !

Prophetic sounds along the earihquake's path —

Forf^lel tlie hour of Nature's awful throes ;

And the volcano, ere it hursis in wrath,

Sends forth some herald from its dread repose :

But thou dark Spirit I swifl and unforeseen,

Cam'stlike the lightning's flash, when heaven was all serene."

ENOCH PATTERSON, LOT 438, INDIAN RIDGE PATH.
"Jbr this mortal must put on immortality.''

TO THE MEMORT OF DAVID PATTERSON.

" He sleeps beneath the blue lone sea,
He lies where pearls the deep,
He was the loved of all; yet none
O'er his low bed may weep."

ALEXANDER WADSWORTH. LOT 431. INDIAN RIDGE PATH.

An infant son, born March 25, died March 9, 1837.

"Before tli3 lieart might loam I "Shall love wiih weak embrace

In waywanliiess lo slray, | Thy heavenward flight dotaiii ?

Before the fool could turn | No! Angels seek ihy place

The dark and downward way ; " | Among yon cherub-train."

NATHANIEL FRANCIS. LOT 333, INDIAN RIDGE PATH.

" For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,

Or busy liousewife ply lier evening care :
No children run to lisp their sire's return,

Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene,

The dark unfalhorn'd caves of ocean bear ;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,

And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Oh. who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey,

This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,

Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind."

JOHN TAPPAN's monument. LOT 307.

At the junction of Linden and Narcissus Paths is a broken shaft, as an
emblem of an unfinished course of life ; with a rose bush limb, from
which five of its flowers and buds have been broken off, leaving five
roses on the principal stem ; betokening the number of the social circle
alive and deceased.

*'No bitter tears for thee be shed,

Blossom of being ! dead and gone !

With flowers alone we strew thy bed,
O blest departed one !

When all of life, a rosy ray

Blushed into dawn, and passed away."

LEVI THAXTER. LOT 406, LINDEN PATH.

God is love.

■'Thou wer't so like a form of light,

That Heaven benignly called thee hence,
Ere yet the world could breathe one blight

O'er thy sweet innocence :
And thou, that bright home to bless,
Ilast passed with all thy loveliness."

DR. JACOB BIOELOW. LOT 116, BEKCH AVENUE.

Joyous we move when healili inciles ihe veins,
Anil genius Houts in l)ri|;li) ellieriul sir:tiii:s!
Bui when di.seitse, ihe Irame wiili p:\l.sy clings,
And the mind lirood.< on lethal, hidi-cuis llungs,
Kxcilsior head, ihe life-sprnigs sugelv scan,
Makes pure the blood und reiiovaus Ihe niuii. N. o.

STONE AND STEVE.NS. LOT ON BEECH AVENUE.
"We see tlie circling- hunt of noisy men
Burst law's enclosure, leap the mounds ol' right,
Pursuing and pursued, each other's prey,
As wolves for rapine, as the fox for wiles.
Till Death, thai mighty hunter earth's them all.
Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour?
What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame?
Earth's brightest station ends in "here he lies;"
And "dust to dust," concludes her noblest song."

JESSE PUTNAM. LOT 473, BEACH AVENUE.

" 'T is nig^ht, and the landscape is lovely no more :

I mourn, but, ye woodlands, 1 mourn not for you;
For morn is approaching', your charms to restore,

I'erfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew ;
And darkness and doubt are now flying away,

No longer I roam in conjecture forlorn ;
So breaks on the traveler, faint, weary, astray,

The bright and balmy effulgence of morn.
See Truth, Love and Mercy, in triumph descending,

And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom 1
Oil the cold cheek of Death smiles and roses are blending,

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb."

THOMAS H. PERKINS' WATCH DOG, LOT 108 CENTRAL AVENUE,

As history makes record of so many acts of fidelity, watchfulness and
sagacity of the Dog, it is here considered appropriate to place him, as
an apparent guard to the remains ol the family who were his friends;
it was sculptured in Italy from the purest Italian marble.

REV. FREDERICK T. GRAY: LOT 1843, HIBISCUS PATH.

Is a lowly, neat monument of a Bible opened, encircled with a branch
of Olive, resting on an inclined slab, supported by a marble base.

"How beautiful on all the hills

The crimson light is shed!
•Tis like llie peace the Christian gives

To mourners rounil his beJ.

How mildly on the wandering cloud

The sunset beam is cast !
'Tis like the memory let'l behind

AVhen loved ones breathe llieir last.'

"And now, above the dews of uighl,
The yellow star appears;

So fuitli springs in the heart of those
AVliose eyes are bathed in tears.

But soon the morning's happier light

Its glory shall restore,
And eyelids that are sealed in death

Shall wake to close no more "

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COGSWELL, LOT 1142. JUNCTION OF CENTRAL AND CYPRUS AT.

"A part how small of the terraqueous globe

Is lenanied by man.' — the rest a waste.

Rocks, deserts, frozen seas, and burning sands!

Wild haunts of monsters, poisons, stings, and death.

Such is Kunh's melancholy map I but, far

More .'sadl this earth Is a true map of man :

So bounded are its haughty lord's delights

To woe's wl<le empire, where deep troublos toss,

Loud sorrows howl, envenomed passions bile,

And threatening Fate wide opens to devour."

SLAB AT THE NORTHEVST PART OF THE PUBLIC LOT,
ON CYPRESS AVENUE.

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FAITH AND THE CROSS. MARIA LOUISA FORD.

" Farewell my best beloved ! whose heavenly mind,
Genius with viriue, .■'ireiiarih with sot'iuess joined;
Devotion, uiiileliased by pride or an,
■NViih mucli simplicity, and joy of heart :
Tlio' spri<rhtly, gentle, ihoug^h polite, sincere ;
And only of thyself a judge severe ;
Thou was't beyond what verse or speech can tell
My ijuide, my riend, my best beloved, farewell!"

ELDREDGE MONUMENT. EGLANTINE PATH,

This monument is on Eglantine Path, Lot 1539, owned by C. F. Bagley.

SAMUEL STORY, JR., LUPINE PATH, NEAR SPRUCE AV.

•■■ O Tliou I who.se woril from solid ilarkiiPSS struck
Tlial spark, llie Sim : .strike wi.-icldui iVoiu my soul ;
.My soul, ^vllic■ll fiii-s to iliee, lipr irusi, lier treasure,
As iiii.-ers lo ilieir gold, while others rest :
Through iliis opaque ot" Nature ami of Soul,
This double night, iraiisinit one piiyiiig ray,
To Iij;-hteii and lo cheer. O lead my mind
(A niiud thai fain would wander from its woe.)
I, pad it tliron<.'h various scenes of lilo and UeatI,,
And from each scene the noblest truths inspire."

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TOUCH NOT THE FLOWERS.

BY MRS. C. W. HUNT.

" O, do not pluck the flowers ; they are sacred to the dead."

Touch not the flowers, the cherished flowers,

The festal gift of summer hours;

They're holy things; Tliey bloom to shed

A gladening radiance round the dead;

Their glowing cups and sweet perfume

Dissolve the shadows of the tomb;

'Twas no vain love, — the love that gave

Their vernal freshness to the grave.

The snowy marble's sculptured height,

May seem to thee a prouder sight.

Ami ye may read in language fair,

Higli names and deeds emblazoned there;

But can its gorgeous splendor vie

With the imperial lily's dye?

lis shrine a purer record be

Of all that binds the lost to thee?

Touch not the flowers ; we know not death

Amid their loveliness-, each \vrealh

That floats upon ihe summer gale

Bears saddening tones t'rom sorrow's wail ;

O! can ye mark their bloom, nor feel

The truth their bursting buds reveal,

That earth her sacred trust must yield,

AVhether from bower or tented field?

There, where yon simple daisy rears

lis smiling head, with many tears

They laid a fair young bride lo rest,

Touch not the flower her love hath blest ;

AVilhin its clustering petals lie

Memories and hopes that cannot die ;

Her spirit o'er its leaves hath shed

A life that animates the dead.

Ho^v vain the costly pile to rear

O'er those who scorned such trappings here;

Swift lime, with strong, o'ermasiering power,

Prostrates high tomb, and lowly flower;

But summer's breezes shall reiiew

The rose's bloom, the violet's hue;

Not so the carved and fretted slone —

It springs no more ; its glory's gone.

Touch not the flowers ; O, can ihere be.

Childhood, a holier type of tliee ?

A fitter image of thy doom

Than the wild floweret's transient bloom?

Let the pure sculpture gleam for him

Before whose breath the world grew dim,

But spare to purily the shrine

Upspringing by a band divine.

Touch not the flowers ; the fervent prayer,

Poured o'er the erring slumberer there.

On incense pinions shall arise.

With blissful chaslenings to the skies.

God speaks in every glorious hue,

Bright words of promise unto you ;

O'er all his healing love he sheds :

Touch not ihe flowers. They are the dead's.

FAREWELL OF THE SOUL TO THE BODY,

BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURKEY.

Companion dear! the hour draws nigh,
The sentence speeds — to die, to die.
So long in mystic union held.
So clo.^e with strong embrace compell'd.
How canst thou bear the dread decree.
That strikes thy clasping nerves from me?
—To Him who on this mortal shore,
The same encircling vestment wore.
To Him I look, lo Him I bend,
To Him thy shuddering frame commend.
— If 1 have ever raus'd thee pain.
The throbbing breast, the burning brain,
With cares and vigils lurn'd thee pale,
And scorn'd thee when thy strength did fail-
Forgive I — Forgive I — thy task doth cease.
Friend! Lover! — let us part in peace —
If thou didst sometimes check my force,
Or, trifling, stay mine upward course.
Or lure from Heaven my wavering trust.
Or bow my drooping wing to dust —
I blame thee not, the strife is done,
I knew thou wert the weaker one,
The vase of earth, the trembling clod.
Constrained to hold the breath of God.

Well hast thou in my service wrought,

Thy brow hath mirror'd forth my thought.
To wear my smile thy lip hath glow'd,
Thy tear, to speak my sorrows, flowed,
Thine car hath borne me rich supplies
Of sweetly varied melodies,
Thv hands my prompted deeds have done,

Thy feet upon mine errands run —
Yes, thou hast mark'd my bidding well.
Faithful and true I farewell, farewell.
— Go to thy rest. A quiet bed
Meek mother Earth with flowers shall spread,
Where I no more thy sleep may break
With fever'd dream, nor rudely wake
Thy wearied eye.

Oh, quit thy hold,
For thou art faint, and chill, and cold.
And long thy gasp and groan of pain
Have bound me pitying in thy chain,
Though angels urge me hence lo soar,
" Where I shall share thine ills no more,
— Yet we shall meet. To soothe thy pain
Remember — we shall meet again.
Quell with this hope the victor's sting,
And keep it as a signet-ring,
When the dire worm shall pierce thy breast.
And nought bul ashes mark thy rest,
AVhen stars shall fall and skies grow dark.
And proud suns quench their glow-worm spark,
Keep thou that hope, to light thy gloom.
Till the last trumpet rends the tomb.
— Then shall thou glorious rise, and fair.
Nor spot, nor stain, nor wrinkle bear.
And, I with hovering wing dale,
The bursting of thy bonds shall wait.
And breathe the welcome of the sky —
"No more to part, no more lo die,
Co heir of Immortality."

EAIIING, BALUSTRADE, &C., &C.

Corner of Causeway and Friend Sts.,

BOSTON,

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Buyers are requested to call and examine patterns
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and 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 Beverly Street,

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