With purple shadows the mist measures the infinite sea...

With purple shadows the mist measures the infinite sea

That spreads her wave-raiment in lavender, violet, gray, and green;

While with thin silver rays a lone star seeks to sound the deeps.

The shadows die in purple silence;

Fades the one star from the sky,

As the dark mist puts out the rose-red moon from its deep.

Pale gleams the lighthouse light;

No warring waves break the peace of sleep tonight

Nor a hungry wind shrieks in pain from the lea.

Under her heavy veil of black

A languid sea sluggishly flows

To some far land of forsaken dreams.