Still on we drove,

I knew not where,

For many nights and days,

We were too weak to raise a sail,

Had there been one to raise.

Still on we went, as the west wind drove,

On, on, o'er the pathless tide;

And I lay in a sleep, 'twixt life and death,

And the child was at my side.

And it chanced as we were drifting on