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Gating off the waters o’er
And the fishermen replied :
“ He will come in with the tide/’
As they saw her golden hair
Floating free '
A ll! he came in with the tide,
Came alone !
Tossed upon the shining sands,
GhastSv face -and clutching hands ,aa
Seaweed tangled in his hair,
Bruised .and torn his forehead fair—'
Thus he came in with the tide,
All alone!
Hilda, watched beside her dead15
Day and -light.
O f those hours of mortal woe
Human ken may never know;
She was silent,10 and his ear
Kept the secrett close and dear,
Of her watch beside her dead,
D ay and night!
What she promised in the darkness
Who fjisn tell?
15ut upon that rock-ribbed shore*
Burns a beacon evermore;
And, beside it, all the night,
Id if da guards the lonely light,
Though :vhat vowed she in the darkness
None may tell!
Spinning, spinning by the sea,
A ll the night!
