The piper slept upon the beach,

The sailors slumbered round the mast.

Still as a dream till nearly dawn,

The ship was bosomed on the tide;

The streamlet, murmuring on and on,

Bore the sweet water to her side.

Then shaking out her lawny sails,

Forth on the misty sea she crept;

She left the dawning of the dales,

Yet in his cloak the piper slept.