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