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closed windows, shows us the group there assembled, 
and lights the marble form, whose soûl has just escaped 
from its corruptible tenement. 
The fading, short lived nature of flowers gives a 
peculiar appropriateness to their heing connected with 
the dead ; and I could wish that we adopted the custom 
of our simple-minded brethren of Wales, who plant with 
flowers the resting-places of their lost kindred. The 
churchyard is consecrated ground ; and surely there is 
a vast incongruity in using it as pasture land. It is 
painful, too, to see the neglected state of sorae of these 
sacred spots ; the broken and illegible stone, and the 
unturfed mound where 
“ the rampant nettle lifts the spiry head.' 
