Found in a Derelict Queen of the Night And Other Poems
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I stretched my aching fingers in despair. I reached, I grasped — I grasped the vapid air! Half mad I fell. (Still dimmer lay the strand.) God! What is this? The flower in my hand ! Wilted, drooping, tarnished and forlorn, With bleeding stem and streaked petals torn, It lay, a helpless victim of my hand, Dying like the hills of Shadow-land ; Dying like my soul, oh flower white, Farewell forever! Love, 'Queen of the Night'! "Eight bells! The watch was done. Each seaman slunk From wheel, deck watc...h, or locker to his bunk. The Starboard men, half dazed from sleep, like ghosts, Relieved the wheel and filled their sailing posts. 'Turn in!' the lookout said, 'Eight bells! — I swear You look most like the Devil standin' there — A-standin' there before the Starboard light All green and pale-like . . . Lordy, what a night!' I turned away but stood behind the mast And leaned against the pin-rail. All aghast I watched the silhouettes in shabby rout Move here and there. I heard the 'Second' shout [13] 'Hey, lend a hand!
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