Poem A Day

To the Memory of Sarah Livingston

by Major Henry Livingston, Jr.

BEYOND where billows roll or tempests vex

Is gone the gentlest of the gentle sex!

---Her brittle bark on life's wild ocean tost

Unequal to the conflict soon was lost.

Severe her sufferings! much, alas, she bore,

Then sunk beneath the storm & rose no more.

But when th' Archangel's awful trump shall sound

And vibrate life thro all the deep profound

Her renovated vessel will be seen,

Transcendant floating on the silver stream!

All beauteous to behold! serene she glides

Borne on by mildest & propitious tides;

While fanning zephyrs fill her snow white sails

And aid her passage with the friendliest gales

Till safe within the destin'd port of bliss

She furls her sails and moors in endless peace.

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