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That’s the Doomkeel. You may know her

By her clean run aft; and then

Don’t you hear the Shadow Boatswain

Piping to his shadow men?

And “The Master of the Isles,” immediately following, opens in this equally picturesque, but essentially similar, manner:

There is rumor in Dark Harbor,

And the folk are all astir;

For a stranger in the offing

Draws them down to gaze at her,