The hour will come at God's own bidding
When the sense-blinded soul shall wake ;
On the dark page she now is hiding
Shall a clear flash of sunlight break.
The corpses of those who had perished with the ship
were found. Godber had observed upon the old church
mound a stone in the form of a large baptismal font,
and had gone thither at Idalia's request to see whether
it might not in some way be made to contribute to the
decoration of their own wharf. There lay before him
the corpse of his captain, and afterward were found not
far from it, still faithful in death, the bodies of the two
pallors. After having been long the sport of the waves,
they had at length found a resting-place together in
the old church-yard, which, though now well-nigh a
prey to the ocean, proved its former use by many a
skeleton laid bare by the washing of the sea.
"Have not the dead in these half open, moldering
coffins," said Hold, who was soon summoned there to
decide upon the proper arrangements to be made for
the burial, "have they not stretched out their arms, as
it were in sympathy, to offer these bodies a place by
