Sweet Auburn: The Magazine of the Friends of Mount Auburn Mount Auburn as a Horticultural Innovator | Page 10

“Here are the lofty oak, the beech,
that ‘wreaths its old, fantastic roots so
high,’ the rustling pine, and the drooping
willow; – the tree, that sheds its pale leaves
with every autumn, a fit emblem of our
own transitory bloom…”
Fall
at Mount Auburn
– Joseph Story
(Lot 313, Narcissus Path),
from the Cemetery’s Consecration Address, 1831
A photo essay by Jennifer J. Johnston
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