His son reached the shore, but was too much overwhelmed by his loss to leave it.

He was found by some travellers, many hours after, seated on the margin of the stream, with his face in his hands, stupefied with grief.
"The body was found, and on the countenance was the sweetest smile; and Bradford said, 'Just so he smiled, upon me when he let go and pushed me away from him.'" Many men can choose the right and best on a great occasion, but not many can, with such ready and serene decision, lay aside even life, when that is right and best.

This little narrative touched my imagination in very early youth, and often has come up, in lonely vision, that face, serenely smiling above the current which bore him away to another realm of being..