A moment, and it all was o’er —
He sunk, to rise with life no more.
A schoolboy saw but could not save
The idiot from his watery grave.
Few were the mourners, and some there
With hard heart said, “the widow’s care
Would now be less,” yea, thought that she
From a great burthen thus was free.
Ill judging ones! ye could not know
The depth of that fond mother’s wo.