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BURIAL AT SEA.

D to the unfathom'd realms, Where hidden fountains flow, Alone, his silent couch to find, The child of earth must go.

For him no funeral bell May weeping friends convene, Nor dust, to kindred dust be laid Within the church-yard green.

Farewell! one heavy plunge! One cleft in ocean's floor! 12*