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FUNERAL FLOWERS. 
“ -A-tala lay stretched upon a couch of sensitive 
plants ; her feet, head, and shoulders, were un¬ 
covered, and her hair was adorned with a flower 
of a magnolia, it was the same flower which I 
had placed upon the maiden’s head.” 
“Thus have I seen a rose with rising morn, 
Unfold its glowing bloom, sweet to the smell, 
And lovely to the eye, when a keen wind 
Hath torn its blushing leaves, and laid it low> 
Stripped of its sweets.”— Michael Bruce. 
These lines may well apply to the gentle and 
lovely being who was laid at rest in the depths 
of the Indian forest; and in allusion to the 
burial places of whose countrymen, Chateau¬ 
briand thus writes :—“ I have seen memorable 
monuments to Crassirs and to Ceesar, but I 
prefer the airy tombs of the Indians, those mau-. 
soleums of flowers and verdure, refreshed by 
the morning dew; embalmed and waved by 
the breeze on the same branch where the black¬ 
bird builds his nest, and utters forth his plain¬ 
tive melody.” 
But let us leave the mighty forests and far 
sweeping rivers of the West, and come to our 
