Stabbed through and slashed by lightning keen,

Unsouled, and grim to see,

Hangs o’er the hushed ravine.

A hundred masts, a hundred more,

Crowd close against the sunset-fires.

Their late adventure o’er,

They mingle with the spires.

But one is lying prone, alone,

Where gleaming gulls to seaward sweep,

White sand of burial blown