Peak's Island

A ROMANCE
OF
BUCCANEER DAYS

BY
FORD PAUL

PORTLAND, MAINE
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR
1892

PRESS OF BROWN THURSTON CO., PORTLAND

DEDICATED TO
Cora Caroline Clifford
AS A SMALL TRIBUTE OF GREAT LOVE
BY THE AUTHOR

FORD PAUL

CHAPTER I.

Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean roll;
. . . . . . Upon the watery plain.
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
A shadow of man's ravage, save his own,
When for a moment like a drop of rain,
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown.

September 27, 1607.