Marching in close, deep ranks, let us roll away the stones from these mountain sepulchers, and set the landscapes free.

From Poet's Corner I continued my stroll toward that part of the abbey which contains the sepulchers of the kings.

Great gates of brass, richly and delicately wrought, turn heavily upon their hinges, as if proudly reluctant to admit the feet of common mortals into this most gorgeous of sepulchers.

The shrine is elevated upon a kind of platform, and close around it are the sepulchers of various kings and queens.

What, thought I, is this vast assemblage of sepulchers but a treasury of humiliation; a huge pile of reiterated homilies on the emptiness of renown and the certainty of oblivion!

"High towers, faire temples, goodly theaters, Strong walls, rich porches, princelie pallaces, Large streetes, brave houses, sacred sepulchers, Sure gates, sweete gardens, stately galleries 95 Wrought with faire pillours and fine imageries, All those, O pitie!

Oh, oh, answer me, [Sidenote: Dane, ô answere] Let me not burst in Ignorance; but tell Why thy Canoniz'd bones Hearsed in death, Haue burst their cerments; why the Sepulcher Wherein we saw thee quietly enurn'd,

My Enemies shall find their Sepulchers.

Moreouer when they digge, plowe, or trench they finde sometimes olde antient coines, some of golde, some of siluer, and some of copper, yea and many tombes and vautes with sepulchers in them.

The caves had at one time been walled in with rocks laid in adobe, but these walls had been partly broken down so as to permit the sepulchers to be rifled of whatever objects of value they might have contained.

And yet these many winged sepulchers, Shall turne to earth, so I and father shall, At last attaine to earth by funerall.

Nothing more beautiful or more costly has ever been built by human hands than the residences and the sepulchers of the Moguls, while their audience chambers, their baths and pavilions are not surpassed, and are not even equaled in any of the imperial capitals of Europe.

About a mile across the plain is another group of still more remarkable sepulchers, about seven or eight miles from Delhi.

Human nature was the same among the Moguls as it is to-day, and the men who were able to spend a million or half a million dollars upon their sepulchers could afford to throw in a few expressions of humility.

Others, with more respect for their dead, buried them in sepulchers made with niches, where they placed maize and wine and renewed the same annually.

This is in the cleft of a rock, and, so far as can be ascertained, it has always been customary among the Utes to select sepulchers of this character.

Three of these burned-clay sepulchers were thus raised and examined during the first year of his occupancy, since which time none have been found until recently.

The Watlala, a tribe of the Upper Tsinûk, whose burial place is here described, are now nearly extinct; but a number of the sepulchers still remain in different states of preservation.

At Penn Cove Mr. Whidbey, one of Vancouver's officers, noticed several sepulchers formed exactly like a sentry-box.

LIVING SEPULCHERS.

[Footnote 76: "Some ingenious men whom I have conversed with have given it as their opinion that all those pyramidal artificial hills, usually called Indian mounds, were raised on this occasion, and are generally sepulchers.

At Capua, which was a great city at some distance south of Rome, the second, in fact, in Italy, and the one which Hannibal had proposed to make his capital, some workmen were removing certain ancient sepulchers to make room for the foundations of a splendid edifice which, among his other plans for the embellishment of the cities of Italy, Caesar was intending to have erected there.

Surely sanitary homes and schoolhouses for the living would be more appropriate monuments to wise statesmen than the purest Parian shafts among the sepulchers of the dead.

The white rayless houses were heavy and silent as sepulchers.

But her eyes were fixed on the gloomy face of Patterson, who was beginning to unlock the sepulchers of his memory and disinter his deeply buried thoughts.