There, if the ghoulish wind,—

That knows well as I know how I have sinned,—

Will cease to curse me in its hag-like spite,

Alone with all the horror of my soul,

I shall behold,

Now this way, and now that way rolled,

Lifeless, among cramped reeds, the storm has thinned,—

With wide, white eyes, metallic in the light

Of the impassive moon:—in gusty roll

Of washing ripples, webby, slippery locks