That he shouts with his sister at play!

O well for the sailor-lad,

That he sings in his boat on the bay.

“And the stately ships go on

To their haven under the hill;

But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand,

And the sound of a voice that is still!

“Break, break, break,

At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!

But the tender grace of a day that is dead