p. 6 | LOST GOLD by E. Hamilton Lee

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, January 6, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 1

LOST GOLD.

By E. Hamilton Lee

IN dim green depths rot ingot-laden ships, While gold doubloons, that from the drowned hand fell, Lie nestled in the flower's bell With love's gemmed rings once kissed by now dead lips, And round some wrought-gold cup the sea-grass whips, And hides lost pearls, near pearls still in their shell, Where sea-weed forests fill each ocean dell, And seek dim sunlight with their countless tips.

So lie the wasted gifts, the long-lost hopes, Beneath the now hushed surface of myself. In lonelier depths than where the river gropes They lie deep, deep; but I at times behold In doubtful glimpses, on some reefy shelf, The gleam of irrecoverable gold.

—E. Hamilton Lee.