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Two Cambridge Students.
Frederick R. Wilton, B.A., Scholar of St. John's College, and one of the masters of the City of London School, killed on Snowdon, in 1874. Robert C. Wilton, Scholar of Christ's College, drowned at Tenby in 1884—a youth of great promise—both sons of Mr. Robert Wilton of Doncaster. See a sonnet in the author's “Lyrics, Sylvan and Sacred,” p. 92, on the death of the first-named student, ending
“O favoured youth, to whom the bliss was givenTo climb a mountain and to find it—Heaven!”
On his way up the mountain he met with a gentleman, to whom among other things he said, “I never felt so near to Christ as I do on this mountain to-day.”
Sheer down the misty slope—one brother lies;
Facing the sea where, under sunny skies,
Sudden he sank, the other sleepeth well:
Both pleasant in their lives—ah, who can tell
What light of hope was lit in loving eyes
That watched them, in earth's wisdom growing wise;
And Christward drawn as by a Heavenly spell.
Yes, they sleep well, since in the Lord they sleep!
And now, from lowly duties soon set free,
The glory of a higher life they reap;
Resting with Him where there is no more sea,
But many a secret grove, and valley deep,
And mountain-nook of sweet security!
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