A drowsy peal of distant bells came down:

From the tall houses here and there, a light

Served some confused remembrance to excite:

“There,” he observed, and new emotions felt,

“Was my first home - and yonder Judith dwelt;

Dead! dead are all! I long - I fear to know,”

He said, and walk’d impatient, and yet slow.

Sudden there broke upon his grief a noise

Of merry tumult and of vulgar joys:

Seamen returning to their ship, were come,