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. Samuel Appleton, Nathan Appleton, Abel Adams, James T. Austin, Zabdiel B. Adams, Benjamin Adams, Charles Frederic Adams, William Austin, Jesse Bird, Joshua Blake, George W. Brimmer, Silas Bullard, Charles Barnard, Ebenezer Bailey, Joseph P. Bradlee, Joseph Baker, Jonas B. Brown, John Brown, Charles Brown, Plymouth, Ma. Levi Brigham, George Bond, Jacob Bigelow, Charles Brown, Benjamin Bussey, Dennis Brigham, John Bryant, James Boyd, Joseph T. Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Zebedee Cook, Jr. George W. Coffin, Charles P. Curtis, Thomas B. Curtis, Alpheus Cary, Josiah Coolidge, Elizabeth Craigie, Elijah Cobb, George G. Channing, Samuel F. Coolidge, Joseph Coolidge, James Davis, Warren Dutton, Richard C. Derby, James A. Dickson, John Davis, Daniel Denny, H. A. S. Dearborn, George Darracott, David Eckley, Alexander H. Everett, Henry H. Fuller, Robert Farley, Benjamin Fiske, Samuel P. P. Fay, John Farrar, Ebenezer B. Foster, Charl
ed monument with plinths, which we now come to, will suggest many reflections similar to those awakened by one already noticed. The Observer calls the object of it truly a young man of talents and great promise. The inscription reads thus: Edwin Buckingham. Boston Mechanics placed this Cenotaph here. Born, 1810; died, 1833. The sea his body, Heaven his spirit holds. The following lines, occasioned by the decease of Buckingham, and the authorship of which is ascribed to Mr. Sprague, appearBuckingham, and the authorship of which is ascribed to Mr. Sprague, appeared, not long after that event, in the New England Magazine, of which highly respectable publication he was a proprietor, as well as the editor of it, in connection with his father, for several years:--Spare him one little week, Almighty Power! Yield to his Father's house his dying hour; Once more, once more let them, who held him dear, But see his face, his faltering voice but hear; We know, alas! that he is marked for death, But let his Mother watch his parting breath: Oh! let him die at home
wing his arms towards Heaven, on a grave be the site of our Temple; and now our happiness is for eternity! With these words, a ray of sunshine broke through the dismal sky and glimmered down into the sepulchre, while, at the same moment, the shape of old Walter Gascoigne stalked drearily away, because his gloom, symbolic of all earthly sorrow, might no longer abide there, now that the darkest riddle of humanity was read. The two graves. see preceding sketches of the monuments of Buckingham and McLellan. I. McLellan, Jun. Here, in the ray of morn and eve, Gleams the white stone, that bears his name; While far away, beneath the sea, Is sepulchred his frame. But here, with solemn step, may come Affection, with her streaming eye, The father, with his manly grief, The mother, with her mournful sigh, The brother, with his brow of care, The sister, with her secret prayer. Dear Youth! when seeking, in a foreign land, New vigor for thy wasted form, How fondly didst thou pant once