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| | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - "Our Burial Place" |
 | | The most touching passages in their eloquent remonstrances against their forced removals are those that allude to their being driven far away from their burial places. |
 | | "God made the country," and there, on its open bosom, should be the hallowed place of final rest; there, where the spirit of God is visible in all the exquisite forms and ministries of nature-where His voice is heard from forest and grove. |
 | | For long and anxious months, his parents had prayed and wept for him, but when they laid hom among his departed kindred, the voice of praise and thankfulness, and not the cries of grief, was heard. |
| www.salemstate.edu /imc/sedgwick/burial.html (1869 words) |
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