about midnight more:

        t

        ts srow.

        AMONG tiful and simple-ed s of rural life s of England are treing t ted friends. t is said, are tes of tive C till iquity, ly mentioned by ters, and    taneous tributes of uered affe, inating long before art asked itself to modulate sorroo song or story it on t. to be met    distant aired places of tion    been able to trample out all teresting traces of time.

        In Glamansold, tom alluded to in one of tive ditties of Ophelia:

        t delicate aiful rite observed in some of te villages of t t of    in age, size, and resemblance, and is after of ts are sometimes made of ation of ?oe gloves. tended as emblems of ty of the    of glory which she has received in heaven.

        In some parts of try, also, to triump;to s; says Bourne, "t t; ties, particularly in Nort    to ill evening in some lonely try se tance, and to see train slohe landscape.

        t paid by traveller to tered places; for sucacles,    among t abodes of Nature, sink deep into train approaco let it go by; ly in times quite to t otimes for a fee of respect to turns and resumes his journey.

        ter, and gives it some of its most toucic s, and in tude s peasant, tle respect may be paid to ;faire and ; observes, "t sime, to ore of ?oucke upon ." ts, too, inually advert to tude about tragedy, by Beaumont and Fletciful instance of ted girl:

        Stuck full of ?owers, sell

        s, ty place it were

        Bluck em, and strew her over like a corse.

        tom of decorating graves :

        osiers    over to keep turf uninjured, and about ted evergreens and ?o;e adorn t; says Evelyn, in ; plants, just emblems of tures to ties remely rare in England; but it may still be met ired villages, among tains; and I recolle instance of it at to tiful vale of Clewyd.

        I old also by a friend,    t ttendants erred, tuck about the grave.

        iced several graves u t pla be seen in various states of decay; some drooping, ote perisero be supplanted by o great luxuriance, and oversombstones.

        t of tic s, t    truly poetical. times blended o form a general emblem of frail mortality. "t ?o; said Evelyn, "borne on a branc ural ive, umbratile, anxious, and transitory life,    yet    its t; ture and     color of tied, en a particular refereo ties or story of titled "Corydons Doleful Knell," a lover speci?es tions ends to use:

        te rose, old, ed at t ied e ribbons, in token of less innoce, times black ribbons ermio bespeak t roses in general ed to tells us t tom    altogetin ime, near y of Surrey, " ss ;

        And Camden like;ain , observed time out of mind, of planting rose-trees upon t t t;

        er    melancholy colors.

        tanley, Esq. (publisanza:

        In tragedy, a patic little air, is introduced, illustrative of ting ted in love:

        tural effect of sorroo re?ne and elevate t in ty of se and ted elegance of t ion t    s-sted evergreens and ?oioo o soften tomb, to beguile tality, and to associate t delicate aiful objects in nature. t    return to its kindred dust, ing; and ill to tions ;Lay ; says Laertes, of er,

        ;Dirge of Jep; pours fort ?oical t and image, he living.

        May ss grow here! and smoke from hence

        e forto streombe h ?owers!

        I migracts from tiss, , and deligly to allude to t I ed more t,    srite, es tical meaning often veyed in tributes, and at time possesses t magic of language and appositeness of imagery for .

         summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele,

        Ill sen t not lack

        ts like thy face, pale primrose; nor

        thy veins; no, nor

        tine; o slander,

        tainly someting in t and spontaneous s of Nature t costly mos of art; tre is ear falls on tion is binding t pats of sculptured marble.

        It is greatly to be regretted t a    so truly elegant and touly in t remote and insigni?t villages. But it seems as if poetical    aled society. In proportion as people groe to be poetical. talk of poetry, but t to cs free impulses, to distrust its sallyiions, and to supply its most affeg and picturesque usages by studied form and pompous ceremonial. Fes    be more stately and frigid to is made up of show and gloomy parade:

        m carriages, m ;t; says Jeremy taylor, "and a solemn m, and a great     talk in t; te in ty is soon fotten; timates aing. But funerals in try are solemnly impressive. troke of deat in tranquil uniformity of rural life. tolls its knell in every ear; it steals s pervading melanche landscape.

        tures of try also perpetuate t retired ion to every lonely se. ed ure; o aed; ude or amidst ty of ty; and s gat, o mind many a talk and s-souled melancholy.

        Anot perpetuates try is t tely in sig on to prayer; it meets ts are softened by tion; t it on t disposed to turn aside from present pleasures and present loves and to sit doos of t. In Nortry kneel and pray over ter terment; and e of streing ?oill practised, it is aler, suntide, and otivals, y more vividly to mind. It is also invariably performed by t relatives and friends; no menials nor a    to offer pensation.

        I    upon tiful rural , because as it is one of t, so is it one of t, of?ces of love.

        true affe. It is t ts its superiority to tinctive impulse of mere animal attac. tter must be tinually refres alive by ts object, but t is seated in tions of sense languised turn    from ts of tomb; but it is t truly spiritual affe rises, puri?ed from every sensual desire, aurns, like a o illumine and sanctify t of the survivor.

        to be divorced. Every oto ion tet; but t a duty to keep open, tion we cude.

        t t perision is a pang?     t tender of parents, to remember be but to lament?    tomb is closing upon t loved,    al,    of solation t must be bougfulness? No, tomb is one of t attributes of t s    s delig of grief is calmed into tle tear of recolle,     loved is softened ao pensive meditation on all t it s loveliness,    suc? t may sometimes t y, or spread a deeper sadness over t    of revelry? No, tomb ser than song.

        to    buries every error, covers every defect, extinguisment! From its peaceful bosom spring    frets and tender recolles.    feel a punctious t    lies mouldering before him?

        But t a plaeditation!

        t is t ory of virtue aleness, and ts lavis unercourse of intimacy; t is t enderness, tenderness, of ting se. ts sti?ed griefs--its noiseless attendas mute, cies. t testimonies of expiring love! ttering, the hand!

        t, faltering ats, struggling io give one more assurance of affe! t fond look of turning upon us even from tence!

        Ay, go to tate! ttle t    be ued--every past endearment unregarded, of t departed being o be sootrition!

        If t a c ever added a sorroo to tionate parent; if t a    ever caused t ves    one moment of trut a friend, and    ever    or    t generously ?ded in t a lover, and    ever given one ued pang to t true    ,--t every unkind look, every ungracious le a    t t lie doant oear, more deep, more bitter because unheard and unavailing.

        t of ?oreies of Nature about t, if t, ender yet futile tributes ret; but take terness of trite af?i over tionate io the living.

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        In ing ticle it    inteo give a full detail of toms of try, but merely to furniss and quotations illustrative of particular rites, to be appended, by e, to anoticle so its present form, and tioned as an apology for so brief and casual a notice of ter tigated in other works.

        I must observe, also, t I am    tom of ad graves ries besides England. Indeed, in some it is muc it is t to lose its simplicity and to degee into affectation. Brigravels in Los of marble and recesses formed for retirement, s placed among bo t ?oure of ?lial piety    transcribe; for I trust it is as useful as it is deligo illustrate tues of t; Berlin," says ;I folloed If?and to t trace muc of ttention tracted by a young urf, ed from t of t omb of ; and tionate dauged a mo more striking t costly ."

        I ance of sepul t I o ains of Szerland. It    tands on t t of Mount Rigi. It al of a miniature republic s up betpat exceed six ing men, and a fe as it ains, prised its territory. ted from t of taiy of a purer age. It    tures, rudely executed, but evidently attempts at likenesses of the deceased.

        On ts of ?oerest at t t I    tical description, for tiful but ued s of t o record. In a gayer and more populous place I sed to ed by factitious se derived from books; but ttle of books; t a novel nor a love-poem in tion , ress, t    fanciful rites of poetical devotion, and t ically a poet.
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