Chapter 16 CHAPTER VII.

THE MEETING AND MOURNING.

"Moan! moan, ye dying gales!

The saddest of your tales

Is not so sad as life!

Nor have you e'er began

A theme so wild as man,

Or with such sorrow rife.

"Then, when the gale is sighing,

And when the leaves are dying,

And when the song is o'er,

Oh! let us think of those

Whose lives are lost i