The stars went round to a riding song:

"Kelpie, Kelpie, carry us through!"

And the goblin maidens danced thereto.

Till dawn,—and the revel died with a shout,

For the ocean riders were wearied out.

They looked, and the grass was warm and soft;

The dreamy clouds went over aloft;

A gloom of pines on the weather verge

Had the lulling sound of their own white surge;