Item - Bereft by the Sea

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Online Full Text:	Stanford Digital Repository
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 33 no. 17 — page 5
Subject / Tag:	Poem
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXIII, no. 17, March 11, 1878 (Issue)
Author:	Urner, Nathan D.
Date:	March 11, 1878
Edition Description:	"In the great storm of Jan. 30, at Coney Island, nearly everything at the eastern extremity was washed away, the configuration of the beach was in many places completely changed, and one of the watchmen at the Manhattan Beach Hotel saw his house, containing his wife and two small children, carried out to sea by the great tidal wave before his eyes, while another house, containing a woman and several children, was swept away at another part of the beach. Their bodies have since been recovered in Sheepshead Bay."-Daily Paper
First Sentence:	Ho, my good fellow! Why stand you alone,
Last Sentence:	My heart is full, and--I hate to weep!"