A Sea Ghost

All 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.