Its bulkéd thunder—and there, pale and stiff,

Tumbled in eddies of the howling rocks,

His dead, drawn face, with lidless eyes, and locks

Oozed close with brine; hurled upward streamingly

To streaming mermaids. Then he seemed to see

The vampire echoes of the hoarse wood, who,

With hooting, sought him: down the casement drew

Wet, shuddering, hag-like fingers; and, at last,

Thronged up the turrets with an elfin blast

Of baffled mockery, and whirled wildly off,