Across the isle to where the rocky shore,

Forming a little, crag-encircled bay,

Sloped steeply to the level of the sea;

But, as he neared the edges of the tide,

Startled, he paused, as, marvelling, he saw

A woman on the shelving, wet, black rock,

Lying, forlorn, among the storm-wrack, white

And motionless; still wet, her raiment clung

About her limbs, and with her wet, gold hair

Green sea-weed tangled. Oswald on her looked