• Out in the dark it throbs and glows—
    The wide, wild sea, that no man knows!
    The wind is chill, the surge is white,
    And I must sail that sea to-night.

    You shall not sail! The breakers roar
    On many a mile of iron shore,
    The waves are livid in their wrath,
    And no man knows the ocean path.

    I must not bide for wind or wave;...