Littell's Living Age/Volume 126/Issue 1621/In Memoriam

AN AUTHOR WANTED

To the Editors of the Evening Post:
Can any of your readers give me the name
of the author of the following verses? I cut
them from a newspaper, where they bore as
their original date March 14, 1867:

IN MEMORIAM.

Farewell! since never more for thee
The sun comes up our eastern skies.
Less bright henceforth shall sunshine be
To some fond hearts and saddened eyes.

There are who for thy last, long sleep
Shall sleep as sweetly nevermore —
Shall weep because thou canst not weep,
And grieve that all thy griefs are o'er.

Sad thrift of love! the loving breast
On which the aching head was thrown,
Gave up the weary head to rest.
But kept the aching for its own.

R. J.

New York, May, 1875..