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We drop our dead in the sea, / The bottomless, bottomless sea; / Each bubble a hollow sigh, / As it sinks forever and aye.
We drop our dead in the sea,- / The dead reek not of aught; / We drop our dead in the sea,- / The sea ne'er gives it a thought.
Sink, sink, oh corpse, still sink, / Far down in the bottomless sea, / Where the unknown forms do prowl, / Down, down in the bottomless sea.
'Tis night above, and night all round, / And night will it be with thee; / As thou sinkest, and sinkest for aye, / Deeper down in the bottomless sea.