And round my bier ye come to weep,
Let one, most loving of you all,
Say, ‘Not a tear must o’er her fall!
‘He giveth his belovèd, sleep.’
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
CCLV
TO THE MEMORY OF MY VENERABLE GRANDFATHER-IN-LAW, SAMUEL MARTIN, WHO WAS TAKEN FROM US IN THE SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR OF HIS MINISTRY.
Fare well man’s dark last journey o’er the deep,
Thou sire of sires! whose bow in strength hath stood
These threescore years and ten, that thou hast wooed