An Address Delivered on the Dedication of the Cemetery at Mount Auburn: September 24, 1831 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Address Delivered on the Dedication of the Cemetery at Mount Auburn: September 24, 1831

The occasion, which brings us together, has much in it calculated to awaken our sensibilities, and casta solemnity over our thoughts.

We are met to consecrate these grounds exclusively to the service and repose of the dead.

The duty is not new; for it has been performed for countless millions. The scenery is not new for the hill and the valley, the still, silent dell, and the deep forest, have often been devoted to the same pious purpose. But that, which must always give it a peculiar interest, is, that it can rarely occur except at distant intervals; and, whenever it does, it must address itself to feelings intelligible to all nations, and common to all hearts.

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