To all the world unknown,
Unheard by friend, or wife, or child,
Are heard by God alone!
“A hand with agonizing bound,
Oft sprang above the wave;
And snatched, and clutched, and swung around,
For something that could save.
“But there was nought to give a hold:
The waves that on him pressed,
Soon o’er his head for ever rolled——