"I know how it goes. Listen:
"But the captain had quitted the long-drawn strife
And in far Simoorie had taken a wife;
"And she was a damsel of delicate mold,
With hair like the sunshine and heart of gold.
"And little she knew the arms that embraced
Had cloven a man from the brow to the waist;
"And little she knew that the loving lips
Had ordered a quivering life's eclipse,
"And the eyes that lit at her lightest breath