light they pollute the pale moonshine
all but ineffectually struggling in
obstructed flecks thro the open ports
from which the tompioned cannon
protrude. Other lanthorns lanterns at intervals
serve but to bring out somewhat
the obscurer bays which like small
confessionals or side-chapels in a cathedral branch
from the long dim-vistaed broad- aisle
between the two batteries of that covered deck. tier.
Such was the deck where
now lay the Handsome Sailor. Through
the rose-tan of his complexion, in part
a weather-stain , no palor pallor could have
shown. It would have taken days of
sequestration from the winds and the
sun to have brought about the effacement of that. that, young sea- bloom.
light they pollute the pale moonshine
all but ineffectually struggling in
obstructed flecks thro the open ports
from which the tompioned cannon
protrude. Other lanthorns lanterns at intervals
serve but to bring out somewhat
the obscurer bays which like small
confessionals or side-chapels in a cathedral branch
from the long dim-vistaed broad- aisle
between the two batteries of that covered deck. tier.
Such was the deck where
now lay the Handsome Sailor. Through
the rose-tan of his complexion, in part
a weather-stain , no palor pallor could have
shown. It would have taken days of
sequestration from the winds and the
sun to have brought about the effacement of that. that, young sea- bloom.
Transcribed by: Christopher Ohge