A SEA GHOST

by: Frank Dempster Sherman (1860-1916)

      LL night I heard along the coast
      The sea her grief outpour;
      And with the dawn arose a ghost
      To haunt the furrowed shore.
       
      And when from out the gray mist rolled
      The sun above the town,
      A shipwrecked sailor came and told
      Of how the ship went down.
       
      Then did I sudden understand
      The sobbing of the sea;
      And of that white ghost on the sand
      I knew the mystery.

"A Sea-Ghost" is reprinted from The Century, vol. 44, issue 1 (May 1892).

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