| Show PAYNES DESERTED TO M B of 0 the author of 0 iloine II oine sweet home theold the old christian cemetery at tunis is one ono of tho the strangest sights in that strange town just off a busy thoroughfare under an ancient archway is 15 a heavy wooden gate much worn wom by tho the lapse lapso of time thickly edwith fantastic nails and provided with a prodigious i knocker knock erX tho the latter however is not needed for the gate yields to an energetic push and you find yourself in a large walled inclosure half garden halt half graveyard where an italian woman is hanging out clothes among the gaunt white tombs it ia is 13 12 years since since f any one ono was buried here and tho the place ie is beginning to look neglected the modem modern cemetery is now outside the walls and its guardian told mathat that many people camo came to him to inquire for the monument of an american poet I 1 or an american consul and ho he had to send them to the old graveyard the monument in question is that of tho author of home sweet home and it bears the following inscription upon its sides lu in memory of john howard author of rom sweet home born boril J june une 0 9 1791 died april 0 11 1853 erected A D 1855 1 1 american arms eagle surmounted by motto died at the american consulate in tunis aged 60 years and 10 months in tho the tomb beneath this stone the poets remains lay buried for SO 30 years on jan 5 1883 they were disinterred and ta taken aken away to his native land where they received honor boner and final burial in the city of washington juno then be content poor beart sure when thy gentio spirit fled ned to nalma n alma beyond the azure dome with arms on gods angel gaid welcome avene home sweet ho there Is a certain appropriateness ix about the fact that the author of the exiles most pat pathetic hetio anthem should bavo have died so many thousand miles away from home bome london sketch |
