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Glee! The great storm is over! / Four have recovered the land; / Forty gone down together / Into the boiling sand.
Ring, for the scant salvation! / Toll, for the bonnie souls, -- / Neighbor and friend and bridegroom, / Spinning upon the shoals!
How they will tell the shipwreck / When winter shakes the door, / Till the children ask, "But the forty? / Did they come 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.