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Respectfully inscribed to my friends in Lynn.
/ I come to thee / O'er the moonlit sea, / When the hoarse wave revisits thy shore! / When waters shout, / And the stars peep out, / I am with thee in spirit once more.
/ Then list the moan / Of the billows' foam, / Laving with surges thy silv'ry beach! / Night's dewy eye, / The sea-mew's lone cry, / Witness my presence and utter my speech.
/ Pleasant a grave / By the "Rock" or wave, / And afar from life's turmoil its goal. / No sculptured lie, / Or hypocrite sigh, / E'er to mock the bright truth of the soul.
/ Friends, will not ye / Think kindly of me, / In those moments to memory bestowed? / Smile on me yet, / O blue eyes and jet, / Soft as when parting thy sympathy glowed!
_March 3, 1867._