Death brings another April to the soul.

THIRD MATE

All the sheets are clacking, all the blocks are whining,

The sails are frozen stiff and the wetted decks are shining;

The reef's in the topsails, and it's coming on to blow,

And I think of the dear girl I left long ago.

Grey were her eyes, and her hair was long and bonny,

Golden was her hair, like the wild bees' honey.

And I was but a dog, and a mad one to despise,

The gold of her hair and the grey of her eyes.