The Largest of All Cemeteries

The Sea, the Largest of All Cemeteries

"And the sea gave up the dead which were in it" (Rev.20:3). "The sea is the largest of all cemeteries, and its slumberers sleep without a monument. All other graveyards in other lands show some distinction between the great and the small, the rich and the poor; but in the great ocean cemetery the king and the clown, prince and peasant, are all alike distinguished. The same waves roll over all; the same requiem by minstrels of the ocean is sung to their honor. Over their remains the same sun shines; and there, unmarked, the weak and the powerful, the plumed and the unhonored, will sleep on until all are awakened by the same trumpet." —Anonymous, Adapted from The Sage Digital Library