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GleeThe great storm is over
Fourhave recovered the Land
Forty gone down together
Into the boiling Sand.
Ringfor the Scant Salvation!
Tollfor the bonnie Souls, -
Neighbor and friend and Bridegroom
Spinning upon the Shoals!
How they will tell the shipwreck
When Winter shake the Door
Till the Children ask, "But the forty?
Did theycome 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.