Of the poor little fisherman’s girl, when her friends are dead and gone.

The Ocean Burial.

“Oh, bury me not in the deep, deep sea,”

The words came low and mournfully,

From the pallid lips of a youth who lay

On his cabin couch at the close of day;

He had wasted and pined till o’er his brow

Death’s shade had slowly pass’d, and now

Where the land and his fond loved home were nigh,