Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — A Moslem Burjing-Ground. [ARTICLE]

A Moslem Burjing-Ground.

As we travel on, bv and by the railroad skirts a Moslem bury ing-ground, and such yon should see would you hhve an impression of a barrenness beside which the desert looks fertile, an image of absolute death, with no suggestion of further life of spirit or matter, hopeless as eternity is long, and petrifying your spirit as you gaze. There is not one blade of grass, nor a flower, tree or shrub ; no wreath, no ornament, symbol of remembrance and affection of surviving friend; no beautiful design in marble; no gracefnlly-outlincd stone to mask the ugly skeleton of death; no reverence or loving inscription. All that you see is a wide field baked under the burning sun, with no color of earth or stone but the dead gray of ashes. The tombs, which are a low pile of stone and mortar, from either end of which arises a low, rough hewn, upright stone, look as if the great army and “ innumerable procession” of the dead had indeed here pitched their everlasting tents in an eternal desert, and Death has built himself a fitting throne upon this ashy, livid, colorless plain. In the near distance we dis* corn the minaret of a neighboring mosque; and, beyond a solitary palm tree, lifts its, broad leaves high toward heaven as if its lonely color were, seeking sympathy with the blue above. — Alexandria (Jor. San Franeisco Chronicle.

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