原文 (英語)

A Greyport Legend. (1797.) They ran through the streets of the seaport town; They peered from the decks of the ships that lay: The cold sea-fog that came whitening down Was never as cold or white as they.  "Ho, Starbuck and Pinckney and Tenterden!   Run for your shallops, gather your men,   Scatter your boats on the lower bay." Good cause for fear! In the thick midday The hulk that lay by the rotting pier, Filled with the children in happy play, Parted its moorings, and drifted clear