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 seen on Palm Sunday in the cemeteries of the industrial communities and the rural grave- yards of South Wales. Young and old lovingly lay flowers upon the resting-places of their beloved dead. Who that has read Ceiriog's Alun Mabon has not longed that the beautiful custom should become universal throughout Wales? Dwelling lovingly upon the memory' of Menna Rhen, Alun Mabon says:— "Rwy'n cofio Sul y Blodau
 * Yr aeth i wel'd ei beddau,

Pan welais arwydd ar ei gwedd
 * Mai myn'd i'r bedd 'roedd hi thau!

"Penliniodd dan yr ywen
 * A phlanodd aur—fanadlen,

Mieri Mair, a chanri'r coed,
 * A brig o droed y g'lomen.

"Y blodau gwyllt a dyfent
 * Ar ddau fedd yn y fynwent,

Ond gwywo 'roedd y rhosyn coch
 * Ar foch y fam a'i gwylient."

When we come to monumental tributes to the dead, we find that we are far behind the Italians and other nations where art has been highly developed. In a Campo Santo with its ordered cloisters there are endless