For a mighty Voice rolls thro’ my Spirit,
Crying, As thou wert, so art, and shalt be,
Ever and for ever and for ever,
Son of Midnight and moon-glamour’d Darkness,
Rayless, lightless, and thy One Star faded,
Child of Night and Ocean, till thou perish.
Andamans, 1886-7.
Epilogue to the author’s romance The Child of Ocean.