peculiar
commotion in the
water resulting from the slant plump heavy
sloped dive of the pale heavy shotted hammock into
the sea flew screaming to the spot. So near
the hull did they come, that the
stridor or bony creak of their gaunt
double-jointed pinions was audible.
As the ship under light airs sa
passed in on , leaving the burial-spot
astern, they still kept circling it
low down with the moving shadow
of their outstretched wings and
the croaked requiem of their cries.
Upon sailors as superstitious
as those of the age preceeding ours,
men-of-war's men too who had just attracted by the
water resulting from the slant plump heavy
sloped dive of the pale heavy shotted hammock into
the sea flew screaming to the spot. So near
the hull did they come, that the
stridor or bony creak of their gaunt
double-jointed pinions was audible.
As the ship under light airs sa
passed in on , leaving the burial-spot
astern, they still kept circling it
low down with the moving shadow
of their outstretched wings and
the croaked requiem of their cries.
Upon sailors as superstitious
as those of the age preceeding ours,
men-of-war's men too who had just attracted by the
peculiar
commotion in the
water resulting from the slant plump heavy
sloped dive of the pale heavy shotted hammock into
the sea flew screaming to the spot. So near
the hull did they come, that the
stridor or bony creak of their gaunt
double-jointed pinions was audible.
As the ship under light airs sa
passed in on , leaving the burial-spot
astern, they still kept circling it
low down with the moving shadow
of their outstretched wings and
the croaked requiem of their cries.
Upon sailors as superstitious
as those of the age preceeding ours,
men-of-war's men too who had just attracted by the
water resulting from the slant plump heavy
sloped dive of the pale heavy shotted hammock into
the sea flew screaming to the spot. So near
the hull did they come, that the
stridor or bony creak of their gaunt
double-jointed pinions was audible.
As the ship under light airs sa
passed in on , leaving the burial-spot
astern, they still kept circling it
low down with the moving shadow
of their outstretched wings and
the croaked requiem of their cries.
Upon sailors as superstitious
as those of the age preceeding ours,
men-of-war's men too who had just attracted by the
Transcribed by: Wyn Kelley