Loud the cock Alectryon crowed.
Longfellow, Pegasus in Pound.
Alec Yeaton, the Gloucester skipper in T. B. Aldrich's ballad, Alec Yeaton's Son.
The wind it wailed, the wind it moaned,
And the white caps flecked the sea;
"An' I would to God," the skipper groaned,
"I had not my boy with me!"
Long did they marvel in the town
At God His strange decree;
That let the stalwart skipper drown,