Winter Light (cemeteries)-4: Sleepy Hollow in Concord Massachusetts
I hover over a multitude of bodies buried, decayed (despite the concrete coffins), “a moldering in the grave.” How did you die? Dead dropped by a failed heart? Slaughtered by another’s hand? Slit your own throat? The cemetery
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When the pond was finally completed in
1860, Thoreau observed the aquatic vegetation
that was creeping into its waters and quipped “in the midst of death we are in life” – a pun on the phrase from the Order for the Burial of the Dead in the Book of Common Prayer, which reads “in the midst of life we are in death.” (Friends of Sleepy Hollow)