Sped by her fluttering words, the last, dim cloud

Rolled from her memory, and she saw revealed

Within a pitiless glare of naked light

The utmost horror of her desolation.

Mute with despair, she stood with parted lips,

And then cried fiercely: "Hath the sea upcast

None other on this shore? Am I, alone,

Of all my kin who sailed in that doomed ship,

Flung back to life?" And as, with piteous glance,

He answered her: "Ah God, that I, with them,