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Cemeteries.
e ^ ti ^ jtowa < ^^ $ f * ie % kt . ' t ^ $ ^^ cep iib woiold step p < etwe 0 n tiiis mourner un ^ KIs co ^ $ plation ? Whose faltli ^ 9 a supply a \ balm more e ^ etfcja ^ * io ja jpejisiibility so wounded ? Such is the force the
ojf ^ ne ^ tness imagination , that , believing in the truth ofihe writer or speaker , we arewon to the acceptation of . all which his feelings
dictate We inay doi # > t the truth of Newton ^ science , of Brown ' s ptil ^ ophyy of Shakspeare ' s art ; doufci ; if the star ? be fire ; but there is a sacred truth in
grief , where grief is true , which defies questioning . A moral grandeur , a majesty invests it , which might command the respect of angels who have never suffered .
We were not less affected by the simplicity of another inscription which , with the abovenamed , we found at Kensal GiTeen on our first visit . The workman ^ task had , apparently , been short , but its appeal was most eloquent . The
lifflibof ! ' ; " f ¦ ¦ V . '' ¦ ' CAtoLINE ' - ' Mtiri ^ Syas carved on the slab . Iffo ornament ; of any kind * mo > h ^ rM ^ rph $ cCQpKpatiie < X the Ib ^ t ^ i n ^ W <* h n f ? " W $ 8 ur " m ^ ij ie ipoi ^ ng tjie poetry <) f , t ^ ( Ch ^ tianrr-rOiyoline . who ? no
rwatfc ^ r—it Kot forjtis or foy t $ & ftotorld that stone w ^ cs raised — - ^ ftiey 'Imowfthkt ^ placed it ltete > atjtdl at & txmtmt i all the rest should be hidden from ) > ublic scrutiny . Something ss , however , revealed , much is
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indicate ti ^ re ^ ; felf , a ^ imagined Ivjr su ^ hsil ^ ceP-a mystery acts like a spell upoti the fancy , we are rooted iq the spot of earth before Caroline's
grave , bound up in adreanibf conjecture . Feelings rise & hcl creep over the mind as we contemplate that simple Jstoiie , touching equally the one * who is taken and the other wh 6 is
left ; we seem to be told of intimacy the most happy—df times when that name , aftd that name alone , was never sounded , but tenderness and joy rose like attendant spirits to do it homage ^—of a character modest as twilight , yet
loved for its hues and its beauty beyond all other brilliant and costly things — of attributes which no epitaph could picture —no eulogium could measure . Is there evidence of a loving hand shrouding a memory from the stieer of detraction ? or
of pride denying aji identity which frailty had made painful ? We m ^ 'W fancy upon fancy without enH , and so building there is lio knowing how long we < might have gazed at th & sculptiited name of Caroline at j & enM
Green , had not the ^ MiM ^ tion of a boy who , Wfth ^ feMIjr of respectable tra ^ y ^ otilfe approached tne spot nearly s ^ ajkert pur aajry ^ ti ( 5 e , | r ^ ^ niqe balawe— -, * Oh , ^ Q ^^^ here ' s a ilame ; not fi ^ n ^ he ^" We i turned : aw ^ y i vti $ k \ i an uneasy * . ! j sfensajtio ^ ^ cajculfiting the probability of the boy being right—one glance thrown back
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/52/
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