Driftwood 7


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page 54  Last Island, then, already has some literary references associated with it. But among them we find Bigney again, not for the poem already quoted about the Nautilus, but for another poem, about the disaster itself:  
 * Gods! what a sight!

When the mad waves overwhelmed the troubled Strand, And mingled in their yeast that isle of sand; …

And meets a welcome from an angel band, In songs that breathe of the celestial land.


 * No storms are there,

In that far country of supreme delight, To which the soaring spirit takes its flight,
 * But all is fair

As seraph dreams of some supernal isle, Bathed in the light of God’s eternal smile.


 * A steamer’s wreck,

Imbedded in the island’s shifting sand, Forms a last refuge for a broken band; …
 * — Mark F. Bigney, "Last Island"

 sources → Bigney, Mark Frederick. "Last Island." The Forest Pilgrims, and Other Poems. New Orleans: J. A. Gresham, 1867. 57-60. Print. http://www.archive.org/stream/forestpilgrims00bignrich#page/n57/mode/2up