A Brilliant and Fertile Imagination

Something like this, but with more turtle doves.

The air would be embalmed with exhalations from the flowers and the plants, and the multitude of turtle doves would fly from tree to tree, without any symptoms of fear at your approach… The calmness of the air, the silence of the night, would add still further to their majesty, and the soil, casting an eye over the ages that have passed away before their unshaken mass, would tremble with involuntary respect… What delightful reflections would pass through the mind from an attentive perusal of these ancient tombs. And the brilliant and fertile imagination, that happy enchantress, would afford an agreeable allusion that would embellish these places with all the measures of poetry. These rural spots would be flowers strewed over the thorny road of life.

- Montroville W. Dickeson, 1948, describing the parks he suggested could be established around earthen mounds

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