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Rh Singing away the darkness, Unto the dawning white, When the sea-gulls came screaming" A- i-e. Tisday!" Bats shivered "Woe for night !" Out of the waning darkness, Driven before the sun, A ship came drifting, and drifting fast, A ship with never a sail nor mast, All of its voyage done. The coast-guard waited with hands fast clenched, Visage a purple white, " Something is here that I needs must fear, After my dream last night." The ship came closer, the skeleton ship — Tangle of shattered ropes, Fragments of scattered hopes, Did round its timbers cling ; Among the shrouds, in a hammock of wreck, A dead man's form did swing.