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The Way of the Cross
Some, a spot under a canopy of foliage.
But certainly:
—A beautiful spot:
All these orphan cemeteries are painfully beautiful.
The graves are fashioned with love.
Everywhere carefully heaped and evenly moulded mounds.
Often a little fencing around them.
Or the grave has been covered with pine branches.
Or the wind trembles upon a lonely branch that has been planted in the earth.
On the crosses have been tied embroidered belts, or clean white towels with deeply embroidered ends have been swathed around them.
There are inscriptions on the graves:
—This province, that town district, this survey, that village.
They bury them:
—The best they can,
