The Ocean Buried by Rev. E.H. Chapin

This poem was written by Reverend Edwin H. Chapin (1814 - 1880):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubbell_Chapin

There is a good analysis of how the poem became 'Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie' here:
http://jopiepopie.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-ocean-buried-1839-ocean-burial-1850.html

Video from Pixabay, paintings of burials at see from Wikimedia.

There are very few recordings of the song that was 'borrowed' from this poem around 1850:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClganlNwx8E

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