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 How pitiful that Poesy so oft 
 Sliould choose lierself the mournful cypress wreath, 
 And tune lier lyre to utter strains of woe ! 
 Albeit, methinks, she never wears so sweet 
 And smooth a speech, what lime to some cool spot, 
 By the wide-arching bough o'erhung, she points 
 Her laurelled sons, and, seated in the midst, 
 The count of human sorrows runneth o'er. 
 Weaving a winning tale of human tears. 
 
 Such was the scene, and such the choice of song 
 That passed before me in a waking-dream ; 
 
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 And uliut, then' met mint' car I now csstiy 
 
 To reproduce in word.'s, — with irmny tliiws, 
 
 Omissions and defects ; since memory 
 
 [latli failed in part to do lier perfect work. 
 
 The fisherman lieaps up ah)ng tlic shore 
 
 Tlie battered morsels of a noble ship, 
 
 That overnight went down amid the stornt ; 
 
 The curious in antique lore collect 
 
 From ancient mounds old coins, worn weli-nigli 
 
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 And seek to gain the secrets of the past : 
 So seek I. to decipher cliaracters, 
 On the mind's tablet half-obliterate ; 
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 'I'liore WHS H s:hip, such as the sailor's eye 
 Lovotli to dwell upon, froij^hted with life 
 For this new continent ; most precious life : 
 Age, youth and inffjicy. Such like as these 
 Were grouped to journey o'er the watery ways : 
 The hahe unweam''d from its motlier's hreast. 
 And the strong man whose arm was nerved to hew 
 A broad highway into the pathless forest ; 
 Aored sires, with reverend beard and hair blancbed 
 
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 Whose eves, from studious toils withdrawn, took rest, 
 Deep-sunken in the caverns of the mind ; 
 f^^'^- And <Tentle maidenhood, whose histrous glance 
 Revealed a hidden treasury of love 
 
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 6 'riicn (III licr 1 (iicly jmtli the sliip wont forth, 
 And uiivcs 'iriin iminniir to the ;i,''li(linj,^ keel ; 
 Wliilc follows in licr wiiko tlio voice of prayi'r, 
 As lovinif lips liiciitiM' hlcssiiiirs on licr roiirso. 
 
 How many were tlic tliouy'hts of future weal 
 That cacli <jih' clu; risht'd in liis hreast, and tlius 
 TliroutrJi hope secured wlial nii^^ht he never his ! 
 How oft a distant lioine, a loved one's face, 
 Was suininoned forth in soul-sustainiiiy: vision ! 
 So each was cheered amid his loneliness. 
 For WJKJ that haviu^r life, hatii not witiial. 
 Secreted in some corner of the mind, 
 A little lioard of liHpi)iness, which forth 
 To gaze u[)on in lonely hours he ])rini,''s 
 Willi still-increasing joy and eagerness ? 
 
 But 't was in solitude, through night, at times 
 In which man's soul is turtied upon itself. 
 Thai thoughts like these came in upon the mind, 
 , Welcome as the pure-plumaged birds that wing 
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 Sourchiii(( for joy, since other semes of l»eanty 
 May minister a comfort to the mind, 
 Not tmparticipated. in by tliose 
 
 Whom cliance or sctlhHl purpose luith joined witli ns. 
 Under our f^aze Nature hath placed a hook, 
 'IMi.' which to rightly read is to rejoice— 
 Whose linked words hind man to his fellow-man, 
 Each to the other hindin«; with one joy, 
 A common and unceasing joy. So thought, 
 So spake tlioy, as they drew contentment from 
 The sights of air and sea. And chiefest these, 
 More than aught else, gave happiness to all : 
 Morn after morn they watched the sun's uprising. 
 Beautiful as the smile of innocence 
 That lightens up the face of sleeping jabes ; 
 And evening after evening, as he sunk 
 Embosomed 'mid the gorgeous-tinted clouds, 
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 Along- the sea. Sucli radiance, ercwhilc, 
 
 Arross the Galilean waters lay, 
 
 Glittering 'mid darkness, like a sliaft of gold, 
 
 To glorify our Saviour's })ath, and mark 
 
 Unto tlie wonderinpr eyes of fishermen 
 
 Where the waves met and kissed those sacred feet. 
 
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 Hark ! 'tis the dash of billows tliat we liear, 
 And the hoarse roaring of the maddened waves, 
 As they run up on the sandy beach and fling 
 Their foam against the rocks. Doth not the sea 
 Wax white with rage ? Doth not his bosom burst 
 With pent-up violence of wrath ? And lo. 
 On distant cliits how leaps his throbbini^ pulse ! 
 Perchance, ye seek the ship amid the storm, 
 Or ask what fate befel the voyagers. — 
 Go, ask the sea-mews as they wheel and wheel 
 Around the plunging ship, with harshest shrieks 
 Rivalling the cries of agony beneath ! 
 Go, question ye the snow-enveloped peaks, 
 vU That lay their brows against the cold blue sky 
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 For ih'-y have watched frcm lofty eminence 
 
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 All perished on the deep ; all passed away 
 A:s a dream fleeth at the mornini?-hour, 
 Nor leaves a trace, save in man's memory ; 
 >U coffined in the ark they trusted to,— 
 While sullen waves boomed requiem o'er the dead. 
 
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 Tears are dowing from eyes that rolled in gladness ; 
 And tears are wasting pale the hloom of Leauty ; 
 Unwonted tears trickle adown the furrows 
 Which Time hath ploughed in the wan cheek of age ; 
 And tears from widowed wives rain sorrow down 
 Upon the parted lips of smiling babes. 
 Full many a haugh.ty heart, now smitten by 
 Affliction's rod, pours forth its gush of grief 
 Which, through a desert world, the mourner's feel 
 Followeth,— like the rock-born stream of old : 
 i But bearing on its waves no healing balm. 
 
 Yet was there one of that bereaved band 
 Who sorrowed not, as those that have no hope ; 
 
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 a For ever at the morn she bent her steps 
 Unto the ocean's marge, dceminiir that there 
 She might be nearest him, who was by day 
 Tlic close companion of her thoughts, — but whom 
 She saw and held sweet converse with, soon as 
 Her weary eyelids closed in sleep. Alas! 
 Day after day she homeward turned, uncheered. 
 Unsatisfied ; and, siraiglitway when she passed, 
 The guilty and remorseful sea, all-trembling, 
 Smoothed o'er her tracks with layers of golden silt. 
 Clouds gathered in her atmosphere of Love ; 
 Her little bark of Hope could not live through 
 The storm of Doubt ; and dim uncertainty. 
 Half-hiding all from view, rose like a mist ; 
 And with Hope faintly seen, she gained a store 
 Of sadness ; and with sadness came long hours 
 Of bitter thought, and pale, tear-moistened cheeks. 
 
 It chanced one night a dream visits her sleep ; — 
 A dream, laden with all the woeful tale 
 Of shrieks and horrid sights: out on the sea, 
 Lays on her brain that fearful load, and flees. 
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 So with blind hands this maiden groped her way 
 Amid the darkness of uncertainty, 
 And Avhere she was, or whither hastening, 
 Knew not, until the gloom was pierced by Truth. 
 Then broujjht she forth to those who hurried in 
 Her dreatn, witli such low utterings as might fall 
 From Sorrow's lip ; the while heart-aching sobs 
 Rose 'mid the even current of her speech, 
 Like rocks that upward thrust a ragged edge, 
 And part in twain tlie flowing of a stream. 
 
 From that time forth the lady pined away. 
 Each morning saw her paler than before ; 
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 t'J Tliat slio must pass from earth ; and roiintl lier couch, 
 Whoroon so wliite, so still, so beautiful 
 She lay, all those who called her "friend" were 
 
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 Love smoothed her pillow with a noiseless hand ; 
 While on her lip meek Resignation laid 
 A smile ; and Faith lent brightness to her eye. 
 New Ho})es, withal, those visitants from above, 
 Pilgrim.ed with sister Hopes, which long had dwelt 
 Within the sanctuary of her breast. 
 Thus guarded, and supported thus, she died. 
 The pure soul, like a snow-flake, melted from 
 Her body, and the wings of clustering angels 
 Made music as they bore it unto Heaven. 
 
 They chose, the youths and maidens chose, a spot 
 Hard by the sea, — a hill they chose, whose sides 
 Ran down right to the waves ; and on the top. 
 Where iirass and flowers and shells were inter- 
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 So sleep they all, the mouriiinnr and the mourned, 
 Lapped in the dreamless quietude of death. 
 She, on her hill-side couch, where the youn<T sun 
 Sheds liis Hrst beams and clioicest influence ; 
 And they, huddled along shell-sprinkled valleys, 
 Which in the ocean's depth their windings lead 
 Betwixt the Aveed-clad sides of unseen hills: — 
 So sleep they in the quietude of death. 
 So shall they sleep, unheeded and unknown 
 By those who follow in our steps — those in 
 The long procession of Futurity. 
 But they shall rise again, — shall cast aside 
 The weight of untold centuries of time, 
 And the pccumulated dust which year 
 Succeeding year hath piled upon their bones. 
 The voice that said of old to Lazarus, 
 "Come forth," shall speak in awful tones once more. 
 Each grave shall 3'ield its inmate at the sound. 
 Nor sea nor earth shall then withhold its dead : 
 These bursting from their sepulchres, and those 
 Disparting watery shrouds, shall flock together. 
 Yea, all ihe dead shall walk the earth again, 
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 May serve to round our life with perfectness ;. .' ' 
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 May give to view a surface, smooth and shapely. 
 And yon grave on the hill — what teacheth 't ? 
 That the most beauteous buds are culled from earth, 
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