about midnight more:

    <span style="color:grey">t

    <span style="color:grey">ts srow.

    AMONG tiful and simple-ed customs of rural life s of England are treing t ted friends. t is said, are tes of tive C till iquity, ly mentioned by ters, and  taneous tributes of unlettered affection, originating long before art asked itself to modulate sorroo song or story it on t. to be met  distant and retired places of tion  been able to trample out all teresting traces of time.

    In Glamorgansold, tom alluded to in one of tive ditties of Ophelia:

    t delicate and beautiful rite observed in some of te villages of t t of  in age, size, and resemblance, and is after of ts are sometimes made of ation of ?oe gloves. tended as emblems of ty of the crown of glory which she has received in heaven.

    In some parts of try, also, to triump;to s; says Bourne, quot;t t; ties, particularly in Nort  to ill evening in some lonely country scene tance, and to see train slohe landscape.

    t paid by traveller to tered places; for sucacles, occurring among t abodes of Nature, sink deep into train approaco let it go by; ly in times quite to t otimes for a fee of respect to turns and resumes his journey.

    ter, and gives it some of its most toucic customs, and in tude s peasant, tle respect may be paid to ;faire and ; observes, quot;t sime, to ore of ?oucke upon .quot; ts, too, inually advert to tude about tragedy, by Beaumont and Fletciful instance of ted girl:

    <span style="color:grey">Stuck full of ?owers, sell

    <span style="color:grey">s, ty place it were

    <span style="color:grey">Bluck em, and strew her over like a corse.

    tom of decorating graves :

    osiers  over to keep turf uninjured, and about ted evergreens and ?o;e adorn t; says Evelyn, in ; plants, just emblems of tures to ties remely rare in England; but it may still be met ired villages, among tains; and I recollect an instance of it at to tiful vale of Clewyd.

    I old also by a friend,  t ttendants erred, tuck about the grave.

    iced several graves uck in t planted, t be seen in various states of decay; some drooping, ote perisero be supplanted by o great luxuriance, and oversombstones.

    t of tic offerings, t  truly poetical. times blended o form a general emblem of frail mortality. quot;t ?o; said Evelyn, quot;borne on a branc ural ive, umbratile, anxious, and transitory life,  yet  its t; ture and   color of tied, en a particular reference to ties or story of titled quot;Corydons Doleful Knell,quot; a lover speci?es tions ends to use:

    te rose, old, ed at t ied e ribbons, in token of less innocence, times black ribbons ermingled, to bespeak t roses in general ed to tells us t tom  altogetinct in ime, near y of Surrey, quot; ss ;

    And Camden like;ain custom, observed time out of mind, of planting rose-trees upon t t t;

    er  melancholy colors.

    tanley, Esq. (publisanza:

    In tragedy, a patic little air, is introduced, illustrative of ting ted in love:

    tural effect of sorroo re?ne and elevate t in ty of sentiment and ted elegance of t ion t none but s-scented evergreens and ?oion seems to o soften tomb, to beguile tality, and to associate t delicate and beautiful objects in nature. t can return to its kindred dust, ing; and ill to tions ;Lay ; says Laertes, of er,

    ;Dirge of Jep; pours fort ?oical t and image, he living.

    <span style="color:grey">May ss grow here! and smoke from hence

    <span style="color:grey">Come forto streombe h ?owers!

    I migracts from tiss, , and deligly to allude to t I ed more t,  srite, es tical meaning often conveyed in tributes, and at time possesses t magic of language and appositeness of imagery for .

    <span style="color:grey"> summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele,

    <span style="color:grey">Ill sen t not lack

    <span style="color:grey">ts like thy face, pale primrose; nor

    <span style="color:grey">thy veins; no, nor

    <span style="color:grey">tine; o slander,

    tainly someting in t and spontaneous offerings of Nature t costly monuments of art; tre is ear falls on tion is binding t pats of sculptured marble.

    It is greatly to be regretted t a custom so truly elegant and toucs only in t remote and insigni?cant villages. But it seems as if poetical custom aled society. In proportion as people groe to be poetical. talk of poetry, but t to cs free impulses, to distrust its sallying emotions, and to supply its most affecting and picturesque usages by studied form and pompous ceremonial. Fes can be more stately and frigid to is made up of show and gloomy parade:

    mourning carriages, mourning ;t; says Jeremy taylor, quot;and a solemn mourning, and a great   talk in t; te in ty is soon forgotten; timates and neuating. But funerals in try are solemnly impressive. troke of deat in tranquil uniformity of rural life. tolls its knell in every ear; it steals s pervading melanche landscape.

    tures of try also perpetuate t retired ion to every lonely scene. ed ure; o aed; ude or amidst ty of ty; and s gat, o mind many a talk and s-souled melancholy.

    Anot perpetuates try is t tely in sig on to prayer; it meets ts are softened by tion; t it on t disposed to turn aside from present pleasures and present loves and to sit doos of t. In Nortry kneel and pray over ter terment; and e of streing ?oill practised, it is aler, suntide, and otivals, y more vividly to mind. It is also invariably performed by t relatives and friends; no menials nor ance, it  to offer compensation.

    I  upon tiful rural custom, because as it is one of t, so is it one of t, of?ces of love.

    true affection. It is t ts its superiority to tinctive impulse of mere animal attac. tter must be continually refres alive by ts object, but t is seated in tions of sense languised turn  from ts of tomb; but it is t truly spiritual affection rises, puri?ed from every sensual desire, and returns, like a o illumine and sanctify t of the survivor.

    to be divorced. Every oto ion to forget; but t a duty to keep open, tion we cude.

    t t perision is a pang?   t tender of parents, to remember be but to lament?  tomb is closing upon t loved,  al,  of consolation t must be bougfulness? No, tomb is one of t attributes of t s  s delig of grief is calmed into tle tear of recollection,   loved is softened ao pensive meditation on all t it s loveliness,  suc? t may sometimes t y, or spread a deeper sadness over t  of revelry? No, tomb ser than song.

    to  buries every error, covers every defect, extinguisment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.  feel a compunctious t  lies mouldering before him?

    But t a place for meditation!

    t is t ory of virtue and gentleness, and ts lavis unercourse of intimacy; t is t enderness, tenderness, of ting scene. ts sti?ed griefs--its noiseless attendance--its mute, cies. t testimonies of expiring love! ttering, the hand!

    t, faltering accents, struggling in deato give one more assurance of affection! t fond look of turning upon us even from tence!

    Ay, go to tate! ttle t  bene?t unrequited--every past endearment unregarded, of t departed being o be sootrition!

    If t a c ever added a sorroo to tionate parent; if t a  ever caused t ventured its  one moment of trut a friend, and  ever  or  t generously con?ded in t a lover, and  ever given one unmerited pang to t true  ,--t every unkind look, every ungracious le action  t t lie doant on tter tear, more deep, more bitter because unheard and unavailing.

    t of ?oreies of Nature about t, if t, ender yet futile tributes of regret; but take terness of trite af?iction over tionate in ties to the living.

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    In ing ticle it  intended to give a full detail of toms of try, but merely to furniss and quotations illustrative of particular rites, to be appended, by e, to anoticle so its present form, and tioned as an apology for so brief and casual a notice of ter tigated in other works.

    I must observe, also, t I am  tom of adorning graves ries besides England. Indeed, in some it is muc it is t to lose its simplicity and to degenerate into affectation. Brigravels in Los of marble and recesses formed for retirement, s placed among bo t ?oure of ?lial piety  transcribe; for I trust it is as useful as it is deligo illustrate tues of t; Berlin,quot; says ;I folloed If?and to t trace muc of ttention tracted by a young urf, ed from t of t omb of ; and tionate dauged a monument more striking t costly .quot;

    I ance of sepulcion t I once met ains of Szerland. It  tands on t t of Mount Rigi. It al of a miniature republic s up betpat exceed six ing men, and a fe as it ains, comprised its territory. ted from t of tained ty of a purer age. It  tures, rudely executed, but evidently attempts at likenesses of the deceased.

    On ts of ?oerest at t t I  tical description, for tiful but unaffected offerings of t o record. In a gayer and more populous place I sed to ed by factitious sentiment derived from books; but ttle of books; t a novel nor a love-poem in tion , ress, t  fanciful rites of poetical devotion, and t ically a poet.