In corners of all oceans, where the light

Gropes faltering over their spilt merchandize:

And shapes at last were stirred

On glimmerless abysses’ oozy floors

Known to the dark fins only and drowned eyes;—

Sunk out of memory, they that glided forth

Bound from cold rivers to the tropic shores,

Or questing up the white gloom of the North,

Or shattered in the glory of old wars,

The laden ships, the gallant ships, the lost ships!