4.

There he beholds upon the sand

A lovely Maiden in the moonlight stand.

The land-breeze lifts her locks of jet,

The waves around her polish’d ancles play,

Her bosom with the salt sea-spray is wet;

Her arms are crost, unconsciously, to fold

That bosom from the cold,

While statue-like she seems her watch to keep,

Gazing intently on the restless deep.