Lines in memory of Porter Leavitt, aged 25 years, 4 months, and 16 days
Subtitle: late master of schooner Leander, of Portland ... who was washed overboard, from the wreck of said vessel, and lost, on his passage from Portland for St. Michael's, at the dawning of day, (5 o'clock) Monday, February 19th, 1827 ...
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1827
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Subjects: Shipwrecks; Poetry; Disasters; Death; Memorials
Other titles: Ye that pass by, behold my grief!
Notes: "Written by His father: I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.--Micah vii. 9."

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (barber pole). Introductory text and poem are separated by short triple mourning line.

Shoemaker 29462