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From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Date: 20031005
Author:Carma Wadley Deseret Morning News

CONCORD, Mass. -- When Henry David Thoreau died of tuberculosis at age 44, his good friend Louisa May Alcott penned a verse in his memory. "For such as he there is no death," she wrote, and went on to say:

O lonely friend! He still will be

A potent presence, though unseen,

Steadfast, sagacious, and serene,

Seek not for him, -- he is with thee.

Alcott would join Thoreau in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery some 26 years later. By then, two more of her friends and neighbors had also been laid to rest there: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne. And as you walk along Author's Ridge, as this ...

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