"The loud wind never reach'd the ship,

Yet now the ship moved on!

Beneath the lightning and the moon

The dead men gave a groan.

"They groan'd, they- stirr'd, they all uprose,

Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;

It had been strange, even in a dream,

To have seen those dead men rise.

"The helmsman steer'd, the ship moved on;

Yet never a breeze up-blew;