Although Paul was so weak that he could hardly lift his hands to his head, although his comrades were passing away, although every day he saw their bodies, wrapped in hammocks and weighted with shot, cast into the sea, yet he never experienced such bliss, such contentment, as while lying on the deck through the long summer day, looking up to the old flag, and the clear sky, and out upon the calm and peaceful sea, thinking of the sea of glass and the great white throne, and the calmness, Sereneness, and rest of heaven.
"Winning His Way"
Charles Carleton Coffin
Yet in the young days of June is sometimes seen the Sereneness of autumn.
"Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis"
G. W. Curtis, ed. George Willis Cooke