Judson's Grave.

He sleeps where the billow
    Lifts high its white crest
O'er his lone, sea-weed pillow
    On Ocean's dark breast;
No shroud is around him,
    No flowers bloom above,
No mourners surround him
    With grief-drops of love.

But the limitless ocean
    His requiem sings,
As, with tireless motion,
    The green billow springs
Toward the infinite heaven,
    Blue, bending above,
Where angels are watching
    His slumbers in love.

Oh! boundless his tomb is,
    Far-reaching, sublime,
Stretching forth in immenseness
    To every clime;
Thus boundless his love was,
    On every side
Spreading freely wherever
    Man sorrowed or died.

Sleep, Judson! no grave-dust
    Shall rest on thy head,
In sunlight or starlight
    No marble shall shed
Its shadow sepulchral
    Above thee, - no tomb
Save Earth's grandest and vastest,
    May give to thee room!

Man marks not thy pillow
    With yew-tree or stone;
But God, o'er the billow,
    Keeps watch of His own;
And glorious thy rising,
    O crowned one, will be,
When Jehovah shall summon
    His dead from the sea!

Pamela S. Vining (J. C. Yule)

Pamela S. Vining, also known by her pseudonym J. C. Yule, was an English poet whose work was recognized in the 19th century. Despite her significant contribution to English poetry, detailed information about her life, including her birth and death dates, remains elusive. She remains a noteworthy figure in the canon of English literature for her emotive and thought-provoking poetry.

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Longings

Sleep, gentle, mysterious healer,
    Come down with thy balm-cup to me!
Come down, O thou mystic revealer
    Of glories the day may not see!
For dark is the cloud that is o'er me,
    And heavy the shadows that fall,
And lone is the pathway before me,
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    Through bowers of unfailing delight; -
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Drowned

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    The morning dawned without a cloud,
But evening came with pall and shroud, -
With muffled step, and bated breath,
And mournful whisperings of - death!

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    Young lips, that in the morning sung
The summer's opening flowers among,
Were hushed and cold; - young, laughing eyes,
That met the dawn with sweet surprise,
Were darkly sealed; - young feet, that pressed
The dewy turf with glad unrest,
Were cold and stirless, never more
To tread the paths they trod ...

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