Excerpt from The Pilot, Vol. 3 of 3: A Tale of the Sea
"Let us think of them that sleep,
Full many a fathom deep,
By thy wild and stormy steep,
Elsinore!"
Campbell.
Long and dreary did the hours appear to Barnstable, before the falling tide had so far receded, as to leave the sands entirely exposed to his search for the bodies of his lost shipmates. Several had been rescued from the wild fury of the waves themselves, and one by one, as the melancholy conviction that life had ceased was forced on the survivors, they had been decently interred, in graves dug on the very margin of that element on which they had passed their lives.
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