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by the flash of the restless water The dim White Ship like a white bird lay; Laughing at life and the world they sought her, And out she swung to the silvering bay. Then off they flew on their roystering way, And the keen moon fired the light foam flying Up from the flood where the faint stars play, And the bones of the brave in the wave are lying.

’T was a king’s fair son with a king’s fair daughter, And full three hundred beside, they say,— Revelling on for the lone, cold slaughter So soon to seize them and hide them for aye; But they danced and they drank and their souls grew gay, Nor ever they knew of a ghoul’s eye spying Their splendor a flickering phantom to stray Where the bones of the brave in the wave are lying.