<h2> The Wreck of the 'Derry Castle' </h2>
<p>Day of ending for beginnings!<br/>
Ocean hath another innings,<br/>
Ocean hath another score;<br/>
And the surges sing his winnings,<br/>
And the surges shout his winnings,<br/>
And the surges shriek his winnings,<br/>
All along the sullen shore.<br/>
<br/>
Sing another dirge in wailing,<br/>
For another vessel sailing<br/>
With the shadow-ships at sea;<br/>
Shadow-ships for ever sinking —<br/>
Shadow-ships whose pumps are clinking,<br/>
And whose thirsty holds are drinking<br/>
Pledges to Eternity.<br/>
<br/>
Pray for souls of ghastly, sodden<br/>
Corpses, floating round untrodden<br/>
Cliffs, where nought but sea-drift strays;<br/>
Souls of dead men, in whose faces<br/>
Of humanity no trace is —<br/>
Not a mark to show their races —<br/>
Floating round for days and days.<br/>
<br/>
. . . . .<br/>
<br/>
Ocean's salty tongues are licking<br/>
Round the faces of the drowned,<br/>
And a cruel blade seems sticking<br/>
Through my heart and turning round.<br/>
<br/>
Heaven! shall HIS ghastly, sodden<br/>
Corpse float round for days and days?<br/>
Shall it dash 'neath cliffs untrodden,<br/>
Rocks where nought but sea-drift strays?<br/>
<br/>
God in heaven! hide the floating,<br/>
Falling, rising, face from me;<br/>
God in heaven! stay the gloating,<br/>
Mocking singing of the sea!<br/></p>
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