  I sat upon the mossy rocks Beside the southern sea, While overhead the summer clouds Were drifting lazily. I watched their purple shadows trail Across the sea and hide Within the hollows of the waves That rode the rising tide. Sometimes the little flakes of foam Dashed up in twinkling spray; And out along their silver paths The ships sailed far away. As through the sun I followed them With straining, eager eyes, From out the sparkling waves I saw A shining vision rise. It seemed a ghostly castle white, With battlement and tower, That hung on the horizon’s verge By some unearthly power. As white as ivory, And wondered who the wizard king That reigned upon the sea. —But while, with breathless gaze, I watched This castle, by and by It vanished in the underworld Beyond the sea and sky!
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