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..