A shiver’d mast was seen to ride
Where the green billows stray’d.
And often, while the moaning wind
Stole o’er the Summer Ocean;
The moonlight scene, was all serene,
The waters scarce in motion:
Then, while the smoothly slanting sand
The tall cliff wrapp’d in shade,
The Fisherman beheld a band
Of Spectres, gliding hand in hand—