UP So Lycidas Sunk Low

So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high
thro the dear migh of Him that walk'd the waves
Milton

Louisa May Hamp

This quote is from a Poem called Lycidas by John Milton. Written for a friend of the author who drowned.

Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more
For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead,
Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor.
So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed,
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky:
So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,
Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves,