IV.
"Cheer up, good wife," the neighbors rife
Said all, "the Bell has charmëd life.
"Brave Captain Head, no dawn a-red
In vain e'er signaled him, 'tis said.
"Of all this town, from foot to crown
No sailor has so just renown.
"The winds that blow, the reefs that grow,
Each one by heart he'd know, he'd know.
"Some night full soon, or morn, or noon,
The Bell will fly her home gossoon!"
V.
The days they came and went the same,
The moons, the tides, the mists, the flame.
And Nora said: "Since I was wed
Six moons the heaping tides have led.
"In gloom I pine—(love makes him mine,
Alive or dead)—I'll throw the line!"