The Wedding Wake, by George Darley, Esq. is an exquisite picture of saddened beauty.

Over the waters a golden, shimmering wake of light was streaming.

When these vapours are spent, the passage is open, and the spirits perform their accustomed duties: so that "waking is the action and motion of the senses, which the spirits dispersed over all parts cause.

Her wake was a broad smooth brown path, cut right through the rough surface of the river.