- Dolphins guard thy infant
slumbers,
- Davy Jones thy sandman be,
- For thy father's gone
ahunting,
- In the jungles of the sea
-
- Moonless nights and sunless
days
- Doth he stalk the watery
ways
- Where the pale anemone
- Decks the gardens of the
sea,
-
- Where the coral's lacy fan
- Waves in courts unmarred by
man
- Where the shark and dolphin
play
- There thy father hunts his
prey,
-
- Where the great whales rise
and blow,
- There thy father tracks his
foe,
- With periscope for magic eye
- To watch the ships go
swiftly by,
-
- With darker magic tuned to
hear
- The pulse of foeman drawing
near.
- He'll come home to thee at
last,
- Broom triumphant at the mast
-
- Dolphins guard thy infant
slumbers,
- Davy Jones thy sandman be,
- Child of war thy father's
hunting
- In the jungles of the sea.
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