That thronged his ocean life.

And oh, he showed such marvellous things

From unknown sea and shore,

That, brimmed with strange imaginings,

My boy's brain bubbled o'er!

It wandered back o'er many a track

Of his old life-toil free;

The enchanted calm, the fiery wrack,

Far off, far off at sea!

For once he dared the watery world,