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Southland Times, Issue 947, 8 May 1868, Page 3

SIRAY LEAVES FROM MY DIARY. ♦ : Br an EacraßAST fhom the CLyihb to thb Blttst, ih 1864. LEAF V.— FEEtST SABBATH AT SEA. " How still the morning of the hallowed day," Had this poet been a steerage passenger in our ship on the morning of Sabbath, May 22nd, instead, of being a roamer °t will among the flower bespangled meads and verdant fields of the land we've left behind us, his muse would have sung but little of stillness, or of the silence reigning around. When I awoke about one o'clock this morning the sailors were singing most vociferously one of their spirit-stirring sea songs, and hoisting the sails to the time of the music. To me who had never been at sea before, and whose Sabbath mornings had been spent amid the quiet rural scenes so well and faithfully depicted by Sabbath Graeme, as Byron calls him — the sounds that thus fell on wondering ear were particularly strange and grating* Taey banished sleep, and I lay for some hours musing on the novelty of my situation, and listening to the heavy tramp and the rough voices I of the seamen as they hurried from one part of i j the ship to another to .obey the command that i j was issued to them from time to time. At the ■ I dawn of day sounds very different, and of fully I a more monotonous nature, attracted the ear. The eighty childred, who for some hours had been wrapt in the quiet of repose, now seemed to have opened their eyes and mouths simultaneously, and a concert of juvenile amateur performers forthwith commenced, in which the chief characteristic appeared to be the discordant and unmusical nature of the sounds, and tho hearty good wil l with which these were uttered. At one time they reminded me of the monotonous bleating of a flock of lambs on their first separation from their dams ; at another the lowing of a herd, of Teye returning from a village common " between the gloaming and the mirk"; and anon, they assumed the dulcet harmonies of what is vulgarly known as a cat concert. These varied sounds continued witii more or less vehemence till the hour of feeding, when they were suddenly brought to a termination with a grand finale of. bleating, , lowing and mewing, all blended into one symphonious whole. '■- An old man who came on board at Gourock in the hist stage of disease died at two o'clock, and two hours after I had the melancholy duly to perform of conducting tho funeral service. It was a solemn and impressive scene, and many of the assembly who, along with myself witnessed a burial at sea for the first time, seemed to feel and . to realise the awe-inspiring lesson which it taught. And when the "remorseless dash of billows" closed over the mortal remains of the hoary sire methought I heard a voice from the caves of the "tangled weed and the bright sea Bhell" sounding " That a time will come, thou wrecking sea, When the forms shall awake which are sleeping in thee, . ; When the angel shall stand On the ocean and land, And proclaim the dawn of eternity. . When thy mighty voice will be heard no more, And thy waves will repose on the silent shore j When thou must give back, thou wrathful main, The loved aud the lost in their beauty again."

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