Jan Vedder's Wife

BY AMELIA E. BARR
NEW YORK: DODD, MEAD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS.
Copyright, 1885 BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

“Eastward, afar, the coasts of men were seen
Dim, shadowy, and spectral; like a still
Broad land of spirits lay the vacant sea
Beneath the silent heavens—here and there,
Perchance, a vessel skimmed the watery waste,
Like a white-winged sea-bird, but it moved
Too pale and small beneath the vail of space.
There, too, went forth the sun