While idiotic promptings came and went.

Snow fluttered on a wind-flaw and was spent;

He saw the water darken. Someone yelled,

“Frap it; don’t stay to furl! Hold on!” He held.

Darkness came down—half darkness—in a whirl;

The sky went out, the waters disappeared.

He felt a shocking pressure of blowing hurl

The ship upon her side. The darkness speared

At her with wind; she staggered, she careered,

Then down she lay. The Dauber felt her go;