Captain Craig Author:Edwin Arlington Robinson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE RETURN OF MORGAN AND FINGAL And there we were together again Together again, we three: Morgan, Fingal, fiddle, and all, They had come for the nig... more »ht with me. The spirit of joy was in Morgan's wrist, There were songs in Fingal's throat; And secure outside, for the spray to drench, Was a tossed and empty boat. And there were the pipes, and there was the punch, And somewhere were twelve years; So it came, in the manner of things unsought, That a quick knock vexed our ears. The night wind hovered and shrieked and snarled, And I heard Fingal swear; Then I opened the door but I found no more Than a chalk-skinned woman there. I looked, and at last, " What is it " I said " What is it that we can do ?" But never a word could I get from her But " You you three it is you ! " Now the sense of a crazy speech like that Was more than a man could make; So I said, " But wewe are what, we three ? " And I saw the creature shake. " Be quick! " she cried, " for I left her dead And I was afraid to come; But you, you three God made it be Will ferry the dead girl home. " Be quick ! be quick ! but listen to that Who is it that makes it ? hark ! " But I heard no more than a knocking splash And a wind that shook the dark. " It is only the wind that blows," I said, " And the boat that rocks outside." And I watched her there, and I pitied her there " Be quick ! be quick! " she cried. She cried it so loud that her voice went in To find where my two friends were ; So Morgan came, and Fingal came, And out we went with her. 'T was a lonely way for a man to take And a tedious way for three ; And over the water, and all day long, They had come for the night with me. But the girl was dead, as...« less