Oh, what a burial was here! Not as when one is borne from his home among weeping throngs and gently carried to the green fields, and laid peacefully beneath the turf & flowers. No priest stood to perform a burial service. It was an ocean grave. The mists alone shrouded the burial place. No spade prepared the grave. No sexton filled up the hallowed earth. Down, down they sank, and the quick returning waters smoothed out every ripple and left the sea as though it had not been!
