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Crowds lined the streets of two cities on a day that marked the end of a political era - outside Mr Kennedy's funeral in rainy Boston, and later in the day in humid, late-summer Washington.

With flags over the Capitol flying at half mast in his memory, his hearse stopped outside the Senate where he had served for 47 years.

"Go now, to your place of rest. And meet the Lord, your God," said Father Daniel Coughlin, the House chaplain.

A few miles away, Mr Kennedy's freshly excavated grave site was on a gently sloping Virginia hillside, flanked by a pair of maple trees.

His brother Robert, killed in 1968 while running for president, lies 100 feet away. It is another 100 feet to the eternal flame that has burned since 1963 for John F. Kennedy, president when he was assassinated.

The youngest brother died on Tuesday at 77, more than a year after he was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

An oak cross, painted white, marked the head of his grave, and a flat marble footstone bore the simple inscription, Edward Moore Kennedy 1932-2009.