Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-02-06
THREE LITTLE WRIATHS.

When the royalty of England was engaged
in the solemn duty of burying the dead of the
palace, a few weeks ago, among the ceremon-
ais WHICH ittingly att snded the entombing of
prince nothing was SO touching, nothing so
profoundly suggestive as the laying Of those
three wrea,hs of moss and yiolets on his coffin,
the simple token of daughters love- 1t has
been remarked, among thoughtful persons,
that in the numerous accounts we have had Of
the last hours of Prince Albert nothing has been
said of any religious ceremonies nor is it known
whether the earthly prince was reminded, or
was able to be reminded, Of the fac, that he
was about entering presence where the forms
Of earthly courts do not exist, and where the
garments to be worn are neither of the purple
of human royalty nor of the pattern OF human
approval 1t would have been well TO say of
hm hat he did in the Christian tlilh, and to
leave on record, in connection with his last
hours on earth, something whereby we might
gather that the English nation regard the death
of prince as his descent to the level Of human
nature. But, from aught that appears, no one
seems to have thought Of him as anything but
dead prince, to be cmbalmed and buried with
the royal dead Of England.
No one, except those children, who, in the
presence of the grim monarch forgot their own
line, its prcrogltiyes and power while they laid
on the coffin Of their father the token of un-
diving love. the cmbcms of resurrection and
reunion hereafter.
1t is the smallest but most meaning incident
in the funeral story. thousand years hence
il may be that some explorer will be searching
among the ruins of Windsor for relics OF the
ancient days. Should he find that vault, where
the kings and their children lie, he will wonder
at tie splendor Of the gded collins, at the
trappings which adom the solemn rcpose of
the dead. But if hr should, by chance. find on
the coffin Of Albert some witherud moss, some
petals of dead yiolcs, they will create in his
breast more tender emotions, they will carry
him back with more Of the sense of common
blood and common deSinyto the long past years,
| than will any carved stones or monumental
| brassos. 1t is in the affections as in "lhe COM
mon lot" of man, that princes and beggars are
| equal,
There is something interesting in the fact
/ that in all ages and almost all countries flowers
have been strewn over the dead, and laid on
their graves as tokens of love that reaches
through the darkness. We remember to have
seen an Egyptian mummys case opened, in
which lay, the cmbamed hotN of priestess or
princess of early days. How many thousand
years her body had reposcd in the Theban
mountain, undisturbed by the fall of empires
or the crushing chariot wheel OF time, no one
could tell with accuracy. Doubtless she lived
before the Parthenon was founded, before Rome
was The monuments Of human greatness
had been created and had crumbled the mem
orials of kings and warriors had been decreed
by senates, carved by scuptors, admired by
generations of men, and had gone to dust UNI
der those chariot Wheels while he repose OF
the Egyptian girl remained calm and when il
was at lclgth broken, We found around hel
head n wreath of braided leaves and blossoms
unbroken even in their delicate tendrils. Thus
a token of affection, a simple weaving into {
wreath of these memorials Of human love. had
ou,asted the most splendid creations of art
the most elaborate work of man in honor of hi
dead heroes. SO the love they typify outlast
all earthly measurement of duration.
1t will hardly be that those wrcatEs will Ions
continue in the atmosphere of an English buria
chamber. b IT they speak of love that over
looks the changes Of time that reaches bcyonC
the confines Of life. There is not much love il
England for the dust that sleeps in that vault
The Princess Charlotte, alone, perhaps of al
that have been there, is retained in afiectionatt
remembrance and those who remember tn
nations mourning for her are fast growing
fewer But the Prince who has now been lait
there had many qualities that endeared cim Il
those who best knew him. and is mourned by
, widow who finds little consolation in her royal
+ ty, and by children who find mournfu pleas
urc in gathering moss and violcts at Osborne
TO make wroaths for his collin.--Jour. Com.