Glee! The great storm is over!

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1. Glee! The great storm is over!
2. Four have recovered the land;
3. Forty gone down together
4. Into the boiling sand.
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6. Ring, for the scant salvation!
7. Toll, for the bonnie souls, --
8. Neighbor and friend and bridegroom,
9. Spinning upon the shoals!
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11. How they will tell the shipwreck
12. When winter shakes the door,
13. Till the children ask, "But the forty?
14. Did they come back no more?"
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16. Then a silence suffuses the story,
17. And a softness the teller's eye;
18. And the children no further question,
19. And only the waves reply.