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A VISIT TO THE GENERAL CEMETERY AT KENSAL GREEN.

BY LAMAN BLANCHARD.

ILLUSTRATED BY W. ALFRED DELAMOTTE.



"The ashes of Domitian were mingled with those of Julia; of Achilles with those of Patroclus. All urns contained not single ashes. Without confused burnings they affectionately compounded their bones; passionately endeavouring to continue their living unions. And when distance of death denied such conjunctions, unsatisfied affections conceived some satisfaction to be neighbours in the grave, to be urn by urn, and touch but in their names."

Sir Thomas Browne: Urn Burial.

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