A gleaming glassy ocean
+++++++Under a sky of grey;
A tide that dreams of motion,
+++++++Or moves, as the dead may;
A bird that dips and wavers
+++++++Over lone waters round,
Then with a cry that quavers
+++++++Is gone—a spectral sound.

The brown sad sea-weed drifting
+++++++

Far from the land, and lost;
The faint warm fog unlifting,
+++++++The derelict long tossed,
But now at rest—though haunted
+++++++

By the death-scenting shark,
Whose prey no more undaunted
+++++++Slips from it, spent and stark.