The Newtown bee., 1879-03-11
RECOLLECTION,S OF OLD NEW TO WN.-TTfE OLD BURYIN
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" The boast of heraldry' the pomp of power
 All that beauty, all that wealth e'er gone
 Await alike the inevitable hour
 The paths of glory lead but to the grave
 Gray, the author of that inimitable poem, "The country church yard, from which the above is all extract, died little over a century ago and was buried in the rear of Stake Pogei's Church, near Eaton, adding one more poetical association to that beautiful and classic district of England; an engraving of this church I think is in Dr. Bennett's office in your village.
 From the great round tour at Windsor Castle may be seen on a clear day the modest ivy-clad spire of this little church peeping up over the Elm and Few trees that are scattered around it, and it was here that the author laid the scene of his immortal power.
 It is fair sample of the old church yards of England which were in use be- fore the modern gardenesque style of cemetery came into fashion, and was adopted to a certain extent by the Pilgrim fathers when they settled in New Eng land. In some instances, however, they deviated from the custom of burying the dead in enclosures attached to their places of worship and selected larger arias of the most barren, bleak and des- olate places to be found within mile of the village settlement, devoid of trees, running brooks, lakes or towering shrubs, which, in the absence of other beauties, might
 Waste their sweetness on the desert air.
 they were to be simply Repositories of the dead who "after Iife's fitful fever'' should rest far away from the noise and bother of the living.
 To come now to our own lit.ss kmetery on the southern outskirts OF this village is the main object of this communica- tion--the Town Records will probably show at what period the land set apart for this purpose was made, that it was early in the eighteenth century-athe 10 rude memories within it sufficiently at test, though there was less method in keeping them then thad there is at the | present day.
 The location is better one than many of the others referred to, and had little more forethought been exhibited by the l provision of a few avenues or roadways, and by the judicious planting of shade trees, its present appearance would have been greatly enhanced i'll picturesque ness at least, but those errors cannot now be rectified, though future ones may ;ittsbe avoided should further enlargement &pf the grounds become necessary. Win the writers last visit to it he was ! AIprised to see so many ofthese ancient ' lets clustered together i'll the south. Z A yart of the enclosure in such a man. | n$k to indicate that they were trans ' feNNby aone full swoop" from some | othN Auarter; many of them were lean. F ing Nssn angle of foryfrfive degrees. 2 whileSSers had fallen entirely y-prob E, ably thSygh action of the frost. " He noySsd also that some of the more ], modern soctures which were designed 'e in the dayN their erection to be of 5 g pretential 6practer fheing built mainly as of brick, aSsssed by slabs Of marble v were also yiA ;ng to the action of ths t- frost and tl4 ssatural ravages Of tine-- !, 9 mode of builtNg monuments now hap sd lpiIy in dislepufA !. \ But the most vsA stious trouble to dca ts with in afly attem1f Towards tho rastors ,: tion of tllss srounds tho vile aud 1aox
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