The silver black with groans;
And when he died he moaned aloud,
“There’ll be no pocket in my shroud.”
—Copyright by Harr Wagner Co., San Francisco, and used by kind permission of author and publisher.
PETER COOPER
(Died 1883)
By Joaquin Miller
Give honor and love forevermore
To this great man gone to rest;
Peace on the dim Plutonian shore,