‘O captain, O captain, I float on the water;

For the sea giveth up the undutiful daughter.

13

‘O take of my father the gold and the treasure,

O take of my mother her fee without measure;

O make me a coffin of gold that is yellow,

And bury me under the banks of green willow!’

14

‘I will make thee a coffin of gold that is yellow,

I’ll bury thee under the banks of green willow;