The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 6, 1900, Page 8

3 . THE SUNDAY CALL. PERE LACHAI SE. WHERE THE \\ CONFLICT OCCURKRED MAY 27,1871 .. | upon me a wreath of bead flowers. It is really to be la- t admir- g By Gencvieve Green. e lowly, © hiie o st Abelard so old tha ol gt 2 S and Helolse, who can afford the shepherd born at ils f i 48 = » nothing more pretentious tion no Il [ wind - 4 than fragrant violats about it that is wed et fre S domb. ax. Alfred . go Tacirce. WD Srasats snd ¥ b g Musset, with an epitaph by 2PGom oV T s : himself, is far from ha s the ey made grave of all we o g Eve . words 5 . - i A A ration. and this it see - wished g ; s € an Englishman. It was the the poet that a tree of this ed on v al of a his grave, and nobody took the pains to plant the Y n the tree. Jt was only after a number of vears that a ¢ tis sentimental Englishman, hearing. in some way vis the unfulfilied wish, came to Paris and plan w wr 1 tree with his own hands. But even with its ng willow the tomb of Alfred de Musset, s tranq w ature on the main thoroughfare of the great cemetery ss # where multitudes pass froessantly and the nofse of hdt o Sug the busy city comes etern does not seei fitting Lo on ace here, for-a_poet like himself should have been lald §og " 2. ™ like Keats In some quiet spot. where “nature 2round ltogether lovable, s 1w arness is profuse and the rose and the ivy are mingled." fn his_ heart One w ad Th ve of Keats I s never forget. It is ons 1 oS of most sentimenta! r ections of my wvisit to Kt Pore 1 . ra Rome. fOn the road to Ostia. the same that was , A p . ' @ traveled by St. Paul ag he went to his execution, petually covered with wreaths and ecra 5 an old pyramid. the tomb.of €aestus. bulit {7 ¥ ettt N tent e YEArs: Beddke. CDrat. It s DeCH UNMENNND oo isn the CoMmuRarts Sl (he. Vore v as stapding “like flame. transformed 10 The decorations Sre b Mctore of Sy At the foot : pyraniid is a little peg- vel, By Al Felitives af L % b lected cemetery for the ‘ment of f Rachel d N strangers who die in Rome. st few occu- : pants were Engl 1k peo, it became 3 al g 1 a . known' as “‘the 1 nglish cemetery,”™ and mow A every epitaph is r own tongue little 3 g tombstene is sacred to the memory « g man or American. "The v 1 n C at home imm ately in t n A s where h E nger in can read H - inseriptions that.are hieroglyphics to the natives Died Feb 2 & n and ‘he ersonal interest in every little 3 days Arounc s warriors P as though it were that cf a friend. . Here ving neglected % Al tears ng the mbat t surrounds the little cemete wore being s gra 2 ant buried wading thre ses up to my knees I found the dfty years aro where Mars - T he “k st of SIMPLE TomMR € : OF THE RAURE s FAMILY, PERE. s of hi LACHA|SE CEMETERY. 1 flower ic At 1 als ¢ E else but flowers of beads, wax paper Two \AE\.JE\ oF . the cemetery a f er is a rare THE ToMB oF . delight. My greatest horror abou g in France quite as w known 1 is that some Kkindly posed person might place ABELARD AND HELOISE.