POETRY.
IN MEMORIAM HERMAN C. MERIVALE.
(BORE 1839; DIED 1906.) Calm after storm, and after battle peace, As when the wildest winds drop suddenly, And the long moanings of the tempest cease, Stir once again, then die.
So bast thou battled, suffering hast striven, And, doubting, still upon one hope relied,
Called from the storm-stress earnestly to Heaven ; So failed and fought, so died.
Would that o'er thee some higher song should weave A rainbow from our tears—like sun-gilt rain !— Since it is meet the singer should receive Tribute of loftiest strain.
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For thee we call not down the Muses' tears, Sufficient unto thee that men shall weep,— Men for a man that yieldeth to the years And asketh naught but sleep.
Sleep, then, and rest !—Teach thus the weariest soul That gazes on thy grave,—recalls the past, That though Life's ocean waves are rough, they roll Sweeping to shore at last.
Praia? MERIVALE,
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