Mr.Alcott read from Mr.Thoreau's writings.

The body was in the vestibule covered with wild flowers.

We went to the grave." Hawthorne came next, just two years later.

"On the 24th of May, 1864 we carried Hawthorne through the blossoming orchards of Concord," says James T.Fields, "and laid him down under a group of pines, on a hillside, overlooking historic fields.

All the way from the village church to the grave the birds kept up a perpetual melody.