Along the outer shoals forlorn.

And now a wind that chafed the flood

Blew down from Noel’s haunted wood;

And now in the dread tides that run

Past the grim front of Blomidon,

Over the rolling troughs, between

The purple gulfs, the slopes of green,

With sickening glide and sullen rest

The old boat climbed from crest to crest.