正文 RURAL FUNERALS.

Heres a few ?owers! but about midnight more:

The herbs that have oil them cold dew o the night

Are strewings ?ttst fraves----

You were as ?owers now withered; even so

These herblets shall, which we upon you strow.

CYMBELINE.

AMONG the beautiful and simple-hearted s of rural life which still linger in some parts of England are those of strewing ?owers before the funerals and planting them at the graves of departed friends. These, it is said, are the remains of some of the rites of the primitive Church; but they are of still higher antiquity, having been observed among the Greeks and Romans, and frequently mentioned by their writers, and were no doubt the spontaneous tributes of uered affe, inating long before art had tasked itself to modulate sorrow into song or story it on the mo. They are now only to be met with in the most distant aired places of the kingdom, where fashion and innovation have not been able t in and trample out all the curious and ii……(内容加载失败!)

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