Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast

by Samuel Adams Drake

23 Day of Aprel 1687

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rst Beginers of a Chv

rch of Christ obsrving ———

Of the 7th Day Sab

bath of THE LORD IN

NE AND BEGAN 23D IS 1671

The grave-yards are the first green spots. Dandelions, buttercups, and daisies blossom earliest there. The almost imperceptible shading-off of winter into spring is signaled by tufts of freshly springing grass on the sunny side of a grave-stone; the birds build betimes among the tree-branches of the cemetery. Your grave-maker is always a merry fellow, who cares no more for carved cross-bones than for the clay-pipes so artistically crossed in shop-windows.