Chapter 81 CHAPTER XLI.

INSTINCT AND WONDER.

"'Ho! sailor of the sea!

How's my boy––my boy?'

'What's your boy's name, good wife,

And in what good ship sailed he?'"

"Through the night, through the night,

In the saddest unrest,

Wrapped in white, all in white,

With her babe on her breast,

Walks the mother so pale,

Staring out on the gale,

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