html.skin-theme-clientpref-night @media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os }A LADDIE sailed out on a calm blue sea;
And two maidens fell a-weeping.
"Alas," said they,
"'Tis a doleful day;
Mayhap nevermore
To the sweet green shore
Shall lover to me
And brother to thee,
Shall lover to thee
And brother to me,
Come back from the treacherous, smiling sea."
A good ship went down in a wild, wild sea;
And two maidens fell a-weeping.
The years passed by,
And two cheeks were dry:—
A wife and a mother, with babe on her knee,
Sat crooning a tender old lullaby,
Nor thought of the lover beneath the sea;—
But at eventide,
By a lone fireside,
A sister sat weeping for him who had died,
Who came nevermore
To the bright green shore,
To wander with her the sweet meadows o'er.