Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address, Delivered at the Consecration of the Harmony Grove Cemetery, in Salem, June 14, 1840
Bring fragrant ?owers, the whitest lilies bring, With all the purple beauties of the spring; These gifts at least, these honors I'll bestow On the dear youth, to please his shade below.
Such is the genuine language of affection among all nations. You find the expression of it among the ancient Jews, Greeks and Romans; among the Turks, the Poles, the Swiss, as well as in many parts of England, France, and our own country; facts, too well known to need a particular description, and they all ?ow from a deep and tender feeling of sym pathy for the dead, indicating that we think them still conscious of the honors paid to their remains.
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