University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
The bard, and minor poems

By John Walker Ord ... Collected and edited by John Lodge
  

collapse section 
collapse section 
collapse sectionI. 
 I. 
 II. 
 III. 
 IV. 
 V. 
 VI. 
 VII. 
 VIII. 
 IX. 
collapse sectionII. 
 I. 
 II. 
 III. 
 IV. 
 V. 
collapse section 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
collapse section 
 I. 
 II. 
 III. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
collapse section 
  
  
  
  
  
VERSES INSCRIBED ON THE TOMBSTONE ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF JACOB MINNIKIN,
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
collapse section 
  
  
  
  
  
  
collapse section 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  


214

VERSES INSCRIBED ON THE TOMBSTONE ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF JACOB MINNIKIN,

MASTER OF THE BRIG SYRIA, OF SUNDERLAND, WHO WAS DROWNED FROM THE WRECK OF THAT VESSEL IN THE GREAT STORM OF NOV. 13, 1840.

Stop, stranger, stop! in silence tread
Amidst the dwellings of the dead.
This stone records the second grave
Of one, first buried in the wave;
This sod enshrouds the gallant form
Of him who perish'd in the storm:
A man of virtue, honour, trust,
Reposes here, in hallow'd dust.
Then think, and weep, for, in a breath
He sunk within the jaws of death;
And haven'd here his body lies,
His spirit safe beyond the skies.