And the white dove, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the polish’d bust of Paulus, just above my chamber-door;
And his eyes with kindness beaming—holy spirit’s kindness seeming,—
And a soft light from him streaming, sheds its radiance on the floor;
And my glad soul in that radiance, that lies floating on the floor,
Shall be basking—Evermore!
This parody was written by the Rev. John W. Scott, D.D., Professor in the West Virginia University, on the death of his wife, and was published with some other poems by Claxton and Co., Philadelphia, in 1874.
Lines by Sarah J. Bolton, of Richmond, on the Death of Edgar A. Poe.
(Written for the Memorial Committee; November, 1875.)
They have laid thee down to slumber where the sorrows that encumber