Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-07-04
ITALy's FOREIGN DEAD.
Graves to Which Engiish-spenking
People Make Piigrimn2es.

Graves to Which neutrality-suspicious.
People Make PiIgrimnxes.
A Florence letters says: Americans who
contemplate dying and being buried In
Europe are advised to select Rome o.
Florence. Personally the writer's pre-
ferences are for Rome. but, Of course. III
a matter Of that sort one doesn't Ike
70 interfere. By all means choose Flo
renee. II you prefer II. You VIII ma
Yourself in good company there. EliEs-
beth Barrett Browning and Wafer
savage Landor and Theodore Parker AMI
Arthur Ciough all rest' there in ina httl'
crowded cemetery, which is yet so muci
more lovely than any compo santo OF tne
natives.
The English Cemetery. they call II 81
Florence. though for that matter the
tombstones speak "a various language.
There are German and French and Rus
sian and Greek epitaphs, but most OF
them are English. The space occupied ny
these exiles who Will not 60 BACK 10
their country is not large. IL - a mou!u'
oval I'm shape. enclosed by hlsh vans
outeide of which runs the wide boule-
ward which encircles the city. the bouie-
ward divides at the gates OK the h',i9
cemetery and sweeps around both s'des
of the cypress-crCwned mound IL y
dusty sometimes. and there are linking
stroe,-cars at intervals. ana people VINO
have a personal interest IN the p'dc.'
sigh as they stand at the gate anu "al'
for the custodian to answer the peii
1,ha cemetery was Just outside the walls
OF the city before those waIs u'ou /"
violent death at the hands OF the icohoc-
Then ~ WAS MOI 2
sbodv and quiet than now. But II IL nara
a. destroy the peacefGlness Of a burylhs-
Ground and. in spite of the brand-new
boujeyards on each side and the street
cars and the dust. the little tnglsh Csi'ie-
tory /. vet one Of the calmest ana most
restful spots in all Europe.
ABUNDANCE OF FLOWERS.
,rhore is an abundance OF flowers, ana
,.at tho graves do not have that risio
yorr,slitv of clipped care, which IL almost
naiDful Just inside the high IRON Sa.e7
which are always locked, thoush thr
custodian willingly admits proper PER
sons,. is the cottage where the cal
.ai,are live. II arches directly over th'
rotb from the entrance, and you pass
undar its shadow and up graVei wal"
which leads up the gentle slope 10 pl-
lar standing in IL circle or Expresses vi
the crown OF the mound. There u solhe
thing on the pillar about the oid EN-
peror of Germany, but IL doesh thuCu
matter what it Is. one is more lhier-
psted by far in hunting up the hat
tombstone OF LandOr aud looking from ~
srav. time-worn surface. up to the MI
side. where the villa is In which NJ speh'
the last years Of his HE.
one has TO hunt a bit Tor i-andot :
grave. but not go for Mrs. Browning g.
II il beside the central path, ana pears
the simpla inscription OF her Initials and
the date of her death. IL is marble
sarcophagus, resting on six pillars III Is
all in white except some smaii ornaments
which are in mosaic Of dinerent coiorro
marbles. on one side Is carved mccall
Hon portrait OF Mrs. Browning. ana on
the other a medallion containing a cary
ing Of a Tyre. The pilgrims who nave
visited the tomb have worn Il little patf
around It. but happily they have not felt
called upon 10 desecrate the tomb py
scribbling their own names on the stone
ore looks A little further 10 find th'
tomb Of Theodore Parker. an erect marble
slab. on which there is an Inscription de-
scribing him as a torch which helped
10 free the world from superstition and
slavery. Arthur Clough * buried across
the central path. and he, too. has only q
simple stone for a monument.
But II IS Of the cemetery at Rome, the
Protestant cemetery. they call II, that one
thinks with the greatest mingliug OF
pleasure, and yet sorrow. 1t lies just
within the city wall, as the cemetery al
Florence once lay just without. At one
side is the hOary pyramid which was the
tomb Of Caius Sestius hundreds
and hundreds OF years ago. The
little cemetery rises terrace upon ter
race. not very far. but just high enough
10 lean against the wall which Marcus
Aureius built There are rows OF cypress
trees on the terraces, each OF Wa Is
wide enough FOR only one row OF tombs
1t might be gloomy In another climate
but IN Rome. under the Italian sky, IL is
only delightfully."- cool and shadowy. How
the violets love IT, On one OF the pa tbs
this spring every one noticed fiat toni
cased IN white marble. and covered
closely with violets. IL the leaves were
pushed aside the name of Constance
Fenmorc Woolson' became visible.
SHELLEY AND rRELAWNEY.
A l.tle further is the grave OF Johr
Addington Symonds, and up unuer tn,
very shadow OF the wall lies Shelley ano
Trelawney. Shelley's tombstone is a fiat
one. with 4 bronze relief OF palm
u.
ground about IL not particularly well
kept II used to be surrounded by vioiess
but this year there were only few scat
tering plants. On the stone itself lay
few withered punches, placed ther,
by reverent pilgrims
Some how one feels sorry for Keats
RE is buried In a sor: Of annex, and on,
wants him 10 be with Shelley and the
others. The custodian takes you out ol
the main cemetery and along grass,
path 20 the door Of the annex, where h,
turns key in The rusty lock ans
admits you 10 a small meadow covered
with long grass. and containing som,
scattering graves. IL Keats were burie,
back in the grassy shadow It w0ulGa
be so bad. but he has little boxed-il
lot right b. the fence, where anybcd,
can look az him across the ditch, whicl
plays the part OF moat outside. Ever,
ono knows that most pathetic of epltaph
which is cut upon the small hesdstone
but perhaps not every one knows tina
the grave ia literally nameless. although
II is one Of the most well-known an,
carefully-treasured cnes In the world
| In no place does keats's name. or ever
his initials. appear on the stone.
or course. IL any one has decided OF
Europe as his ilnal resting place, Their
Is no excuse. as before said. for ou,sid,
interference: only IL does seem lltt
pathetic. even In the quiet shadows a
Rome. They are a colony OF exiies iron
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