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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Mount Auburn

Mount Auburn
teenagers laughing
by somebody's tomb

Located on the Watertown/Cambridge line in eastern Massachusetts, Mount Auburn is the oldest landscaped cemetery in the US. It draws over 200, 000 visitors a year. Considering the prestige of many of those buried there, it is highly likely that the inhabitant of the tomb in the poem was indeed a Somebody.

posted by Bill | 2:24 PM

3 Comments:

Blogger Magyar said...

At this crypt *the lees of time have been cast *their silence

My trivial opinion?
__To the young, we teach too thinly the gravity of they that have built us; history. Thus, 'tis our failure to the young.

Your senryu has said this so well, Bill. _m

8:18 AM  
Blogger Bill said...

Thanks, Doug. Glad it works for you. (By the way, Mount Auburn is worth a visit, and it's not too far from you.)

4:23 PM  
Blogger Magyar said...

Just a note, Bill.
__I've been there, long ago. Such historic names of Literature, Visionaries and Statesmen!

8:43 PM  

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