← Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon—' 🔊
← All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, 🔊
← At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mist; 🔊
← It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist. 🔊
← Gramercy! they for joy did grin, And all at once their breath drew in. As they were drinking all. 🔊
← For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky Lay dead like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. 🔊
← And the rain poured down from one black cloud; The Moon was at its edge. 🔊
← The thick black cloud was cleft, and still The Moon was at its side: 🔊
← The body and I pulled at one rope, But he said nought to me. 🔊
← The sails at noon left off their tune, And the ship stood still also. 🔊